Eternal
(instrumental)

Holy Ground

Wild as the river in my heart
Deep as the forest in my soul
Free

Wind swaying is my mother
I take in air
Deep grounded is my father
I’m rooted here

I don’t mind how far away we are
We are always bound
For the land where I grew up is Holy Ground

High as the mountains in my mind
Hot as the fire in my eyes
Free

Wind swaying is my mother
I take in air
Deep grounded is my father
I’m rooted here

I don’t mind how far away we are
We are always bound
For the land where I grew up is Holy Ground

Like Father, Like Son

Like father, like son
Both driftin' down the stream
Both tryin' to find our own way home
Both dreaming the same dream

I see two pairs of footsteps through time
Yours are taller than mine
And our lives will entwine

Like father, like son
We drink the rivers dry
We climb the mountains one by one
And we reach for the same sky

I see two pairs of footsteps through time
Yours are wider than mine
As our stories entwine

Time flies when I’m looking for the answers
and I try to find a piece of who I am
Look in the mirror now and it’s you who look back at me
And I’m needed somewhere
Needed somewhere!

Also I made prints in time
To pass the wisdom down the line
And most of what I teach, I taught from you

And when I speak I hear your voice
And when I choose I feel your choice
‘Cause all I do’s reminding me of you

Like father, like son
Both driftin' down the stream
Both tryin' to find our own way home
Both dreaming the same dream

I see three pairs of footsteps through time
Yours are fading, so are mine
But our lives sure entwined

Infected

Time just feeds my anger
What am I to do?
My conscious, like a cancer
Infected through and through

Oh, my father please undo me
For I am much too weak
And with the last light of the sunset
Existence seems so bleak

I’ve tried to make them quiet
The voices in my head
I’ve tried to make them love me
The demons in my bed

Father, father… am I a liar?
A wrong? A petty thief?
So take away my anger
A cursed decease relief

Snow

Fading into the darkness
Breathing the solid air
Frozen and yet I’m burning
Staring into the night

They are falling from the heavens
Covering the death and all this madness
And if only for a moment
If only for a swift blink of an eye
And they take my withered soul and cast it out
Now I can feel it falling
Then they heal this crippled Earth
Preparing one more birth and then they die

Can hear them landing, one by one
I can feel their magic all around me where I am
I stay quiet, lost for words
They are all around
I’m everywhere

Never Changed (LP only)

I took a path I knew so well
Like echoes it all came
I recognised the trails and scars
For which we are to blame
Though everything’s familiar
Nothing ever stays the same

I count decades since the last time
I walked this heavy ground
Yet every sight and smell was there
Just waiting to be found

Beneath a glaze of dust and web
As time’s been standing still
I stop and pace, I take it in
My soul will get its fill

How we can measure the cause of time
So differently each day
Depends on what we do with it
And where we choose to stay
Will we linger in a moment
Or will we run away?

So here I stand, back at the start
With crossroads blocked with stones
Peering through the windows of my past
With aching bones

And memories flash before my eyes
The feelings flooding in
I know that I have never changed
Just grown and shed my skin

Our Home

Three steps in a staircase, through this door
I have walked so many times before
Set right in the outskirts of our town
And from our little porch we would watch the sunset burning down

This house, our home, our lives
Stone by stone
So leave a soul to roam our home

Head out to the garden with the tree
And our imagination would run free
There could be a treehouse with a swing
We just dared to dream
And our home would give us everything

This house, our home, our lives
Stone by stone
So leave a soul to roam our home

I Cried Today

I cried today to reason with the past
I cried today as each day was my last
I cried today, my heart lost in a vast
I cried today

I cried today and let everything pour out
I cried today, my self-esteem, my doubt
I cried today, the whispers and the shout
I cried today

I don’t even know what caused this scene
I don’t even know what this all means
I don’t really care what came around
But it felt good

I cried today, a burden off my back
I cried today, a paler shade of black
I cried today, the light is coming back
I cried today

I don’t even know what caused this scene
I don’t even know what this all means
I don’t really care what came around
‘Cause it felt good

Jaded soul make me whole
Wounded skin let me in

I cried today
I tried today

Chelsea Hotel #2
(L. Cohen)

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were talking so brave and so sweet
Giving me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street
And those were the reasons
And that was New York
We were running for the money and the flesh
And that was called love for the workers in song
Probably stil is for those of them left.

But you got away, didn’t you baby
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say:
I need you, I don’t need you
I need you, I don’t need you
And all of that jivin' around

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
And you told me again, you preferred handsome men
But for me you’d make an exception
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
You said: "Well, never mind...
We are ugly but we have the music"

But you got away, didn’t you baby
You just threw it all to the ground
You got away, I never once heard you say:
I need you, I don’t need you
I need you, I don’t need you
And all of that jivin' around

I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best
Can’t keep track of each fallen robin
But I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
That’s all… I don’t even think of you that often

You Need Not Stay (Away)

I know your dreams lie beyond horizon’s edge
You, follow your dreams, follow your heart now

And when Summer dies
An urge to fly away
You need not stay
You need not stay

And when Winter melts away
Homesick and trembling
You need not stay
You need not stay away