Inkwell Isle One - The Living Tombstone

On the first day on January Eighteen ninety-two They opened ellis Island And they let the people through And the first to cross the treshold Of that Isle of hope and tears Was Annie Moore from Ireland Who was only fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind In a little bag she carried All her past and history And her dreams for the future In the Land of Liberty And courage is the passport When your old world disappears But there's no future in the past When you're fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind When they closed down Ellis Island In Nineteen Fourty-Three Seventeen million people Had come there for Sanctuary And in springtime when I came here And I stepped onto it's piers I thought of how it must have been When you're fifteen years Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears Isle of Freedom, Isle of Fears But it's not the Isle you left behind That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain Isle you'll never see again But the Isle of home is always on your mind

Blinding shining star You won't see so far Know what can't be shown Feel what can't be known You were an isle unto thyself You had a heart you hadn't felt Why would it hurt me Or was it real It was the night we had to part We were afraid to miss the start What did it matter Why would it matter And could we heal Blinding shining star You won't see so far Know what can't be shown Feel what can't be known I was a victim of magic Apollo catching my breath as I bled on the ground Somebody called me to follow I followed thinking aloud without hearing the sound Then all the planets fell to dust Lonely departing after us Gone not forgotten Long but forgotten old lore In every element of life Love camouflaging under strife or other matters Minds over matters let there be more Maybe you'll exit tomorrow The sorrow sweeping you off as your island replies Sudden invincible flowing A river clearer than all thou might view with thine eyes Why did fire-erupted lands arrive? Why did murderous animals survive? Why did we deserve to be revived? Why was any and everything alive?

You're losing yourself With the life that you are leading, honey You're somebody else when you pick up the phone You're falling apart Every time he says he needs you, baby And please, it's breaking my heart, to see you go on You say my name and the world turns Hold me in your arms and my heart burns Like the sunlight And I can't fight The way you hypnotize me like you do I see your eyes and my day starts You tell all your lies and you break hearts I still need you 'Cause I'm free to My daydream may be fake But babe, you are too You're letting him win You forgive him and he smiles and carries on You're giving it up You're living a lie I know, you can't be alone You would rather what you have than the unknown You poison yourself, but you're enjoying the show You say my name and the world turns Hold me in your arms and my heart burns Like the sunlight And I can't fight The way you hypnotize me like you do I see you rise and my day starts You tell all your lies, and you break hearts I still need you 'Cause I'm free too My daydream may be fake But babe, you are too Love is blind when you are staring at the sun You close your eyes 'cause you got nowhere to run When you lose your home Your heart has nowhere left to turn Let it burn, let it burn I'm yours until you've had all your fun I'm losing myself (I'm losing myself, I'm losing myself) You smile and I get sunburn (sunburn, sunburn)

He could not save us all He could not save us all And no one's left to take the fall He's trapped inside his walls He did not say goodbye He's playing God, decide who lives or dies It's his design He's trapped inside his mind Hello neighbor, glad that you could drop by But it's a bad time And I'm a little tied up at the moment So if you'd leave me alone and say goodbye I won't ask about your wandering eye Sorry, I can't come to the door for more I feel like we barеly see each other And you're only nеxt door Did you try to say hello before and miss me? I assure you nothing's wrong, I've just been very busy Much to be done in such little time It's enough to make somebody crumble Undone and as they stumble to outrun their mind Look at me mumbling, you're getting impatient Well, why don't you come in? I'll show you the basement What are you spying for? I'm just curious What are you lying for? It makes me furious Oh, you shouldn't have come looking for trouble Don't struggle, hold on, let me get my shovel He could not save us all He could not save us all And no one's left to take the fall He's trapped inside his walls He did not say goodbye He's playing god, decide who lives or dies It's his design He's trapped inside his mind I'm a brainiac I'm on the edge, they're calling me a maniac I'm on the ledge, who knows which way I may react? Apostle of the technical, erecting the impossible A feat of engineering veering into disarray The way that every memory's sending me to a place Where every friend of me's my enemy Retrace the steps I went on that dismember me Can I build a machine that can filter the screams in my head? Can I scheme in between all the themes of the dreams of the dead? I have lost all that I am willing to lose It's got me confused, it's got me unhinged Paranoid that I will lose the boy and you will win My mind is a museum, every painting is a scar They're calling me extreme But what the hell does that make what they are? I'm chasing shadows in the dark I'm chasing all the fallen feathers in the park A raven saying nevermore They're paving over secrets held forevermore I'll master hell, so what do I need heaven for? He could not save us all He could not save us all And no one's left to take the fall He's trapped inside his walls He did not say goodbye He's playing god, decide who lives or dies It's his design He's trapped inside his mind He could not save us all Left to take the fall Trapped inside his walls Trapped inside his Mind, mind, mind, mind, mind