It's an emergency It's time to follow through This fateful spell This hateful shell This view If only you'd permit yourself To see the vision before your eyes The intervening years The fading cheers The garden full of wine (Chorus…

Scarf tied to hide the face Lurking in the shadows Entertained by every chase Covertly underexposed Tag it And admire it Then on to the next wall Fluorescent basement sign Hiding in the rat run Phosphorescent alibi Stylistic but overdone…

Woke up late again today Just in time to catch the matinee Filling up on TV Another coffee And a smoke Back to sleep until midday Ignore the morning cabaret Never met the postman Bills delivered But never read (Chorus) Stuck in…

Drowning in a sea of pills Testing their performance Keep from slipping off downhill Accept this circumstance Jump right back in to the fray Expect reaction no delay (Chorus) Balance, it’s the new mantra Balance, the new prayer Balance…

Looking back, travelled so far A green outline all that's left Floating off, no more sunset All the memories seem bereft Moving faster, increasing speed Boosters dropped long ago A silhouette against the starlight Much more time, now…

This city is dangerous It cuts like a knife Traffic flowing down a one way street No time to fight Overtime not injury time Shots ring out on Kings Road Double blasts of shotgun Pay back what’s been owed (Chorus) The city's pulling…

Twisting and flapping Never making sense At the end of the argument Offered no defence Stacking the odds Before the debts accrue A sign of the times A case of déjà vu (Chorus) Tongue, bite your tongue Tongue Declaring the winner…

If you get rid of me The tower will fall down Can’t wait to see the back of me Not hard to push around That's what you wanted all along But your prediction’s very wrong (Chorus) Taking flight the raven turns and then escapes Wraps its…

See that post? They see it too Tracking down your latest move Right or wrong, they don't care Intercepting as you share And I bet you feel secure at home Check the blinds you’re not alone (Chorus) Ever get that subtle feeling That they…

Standing on a tightrope Stranded in midair Struggling to balance Mortality aware Scared of looking downwards As the drop below is much too far The pole is getting heavy Sliding through the hands Braced against the headwind Submit to…