Time Won't Stop:
Adam Cooper (2002)

the alarm clock screams
chasing away the dreams
a moan escapes the lips
aches settle in the hips
swing your legs, you are up
pour coffee in the cup
life is a daily game
same shit, different name

growing older by the day
it is the natural way
time won't stop or switch
growing older is a bitch

drive to work half awake
just so your work can take
away your hope and pride
all that you are inside
put in eight and go home
just to sit there, alone
open a beer, drown your blues
and forget all you lose

growing older by the day
it is the natural way
time won't stop or switch
growing older is a bitch

feeling lonelier today
forgot how you should say
that it is time to switch
growing older is a bitch

I Can See:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Have you seen all that lies
deep within my lonely eyes?
hopes, dreams, and lost love
but no enchantments from above
but I keep on my lonely walk
and forget the lovely talk
leaving the past deceptions
and all my false perceptions
of love that no longer exists
but my dying heart resists.

can't let go at times
lost, deep in the lies
I'm trying not to see
that I'm sick of me

Letting the past hold me
and I keep failing to see
that all of what we had
has eventually gone bad
All the roses now wilt and die
and I still try to live in a lie
The moment has finally passed
loving ways finally collapsed
I am left to live on alone
I will make it on my own

can't let go at times
lost, deep in the lies
but now now I can see
how I can be free

untitled:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Some mornings come to me
and others go by before I rise.
holes in last night's memory
all while my head's ache cries.
was just another wild night
then going home to an empty house
it's the usual, but not right
can't survive hiding like a mouse

Bleed:
Adam Cooper (2002)

bleed out all your pains
wash it away with rains
let all the heartaches go
before they start to slow
you down

Tears fall down your face
staring into space
the blankness of your eyes
now reflects on the lies
you told

Free Mind
Adam Cooper (2002)

No time for me to think
about this life's stink
I'd rather keep going
without ever slowing

my mind is so free
you want to be me?
just want you to see
that I'm finally free

Can't listen to your shit
My mind wan't take the hit
you can keep what you give
I can continue to live

all my troubles gone
lord it's been so long
since it all went wrong
Now I will live on

Saw you lying there
broken heart, dirty hair
don't know why or how
not my problem now

you have left my mind
don't want to be unkind
but you should unwind
you have escaped my mind

untitled:
Adam Cooper (2002)

thunderous explosions
define all our moments
towering infernos
cast a welcoming glow
enchanting incantations
lead us into damnation
seasonal depressions
caused by loves confessions
pubescent confusions
still haunt love illusions

armageddon will await
hearts that facilitate
the necessities of hate
but they won't be late

Personal situations
left us with no elation
psychiatric fallout
has lead us to callout
aforementioned regrets
bring us desperate steps
dysfunctional martyrs
deliver us more to fear
the religious grandeur
can have their holy war

The Oppressing Machines:
Adam Cooper (2002)

The steady drone of machines
disturbing the night
rumbling sounds, so obscene
proclaiming their plight
to constantly disturb peace
and the feeble minds
as they spread their disease
to all of mankind

and in these dreary nights
we search for what is right
futilely search for meaning
hope to end the screaming

overpowering machines
won't let us be free
just let us slave to their needs
forget what we see
busted bones and broken hearts
don't make them upset
they see us only as parts
of the goals they set

and in these dreary days
we search through the maze
looking for the way out
and have lost our clout

untitled:
Adam Cooper (2002)

c'mon,
you know you want to
c'mon
know you can't help it
c'mon
get whats for you
c'mon
you know you want a hit

escape your reality,
today
release your duality
to stay
can't stand your facade
again
it's just too damn odd
to stand

looking for my debutante
at the ball
surrounded by the ambience
of it all
what is in your dowry
just for me?
enough to pay my salary
just to stay?

I'm Not There:
Adam Cooper (2002)

dangling from your fears
of all you lost years
need a helping hand
pull you to dry land
it will not be mine
it was lost in time
don't think I don't care
I am just not there
freed myself from memories
now it is all just history

The Envied Two:
Dedicated to Pat and Nicole, and Mike and Toni.
Adam Cooper (2002)

watched you two walk,
down the aisle
as I smile
think of all our talk
about this day
along the way

a friend and a friend
committing their
lives together
together you can mend
each others pains
and you will reign

Inferno of Sin:
Adam Cooper (2002)

the skies darkens above
the heads of those below
preparing its fury
unleash upon the sinners
destroy the self-serving
save only the unselfish

the storm rages down
before subsiding
the sun opens the clouds
with its light revealing
nothing but empty streets
and newborns

we are all the self-serving
we light a candle for each sinner
and watch the world catch fire.

Naive:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Float away on love
like the flying dove
can you see the tears
from the babies' fears
haunting in their sleep
in the house you keep

Feel the past misfortunes
come back to haunt your mind
and drown you in your sins
run away and don't look behind
there is nothing left to see
the lonesome people have gone
left nothing behind but me
me the most brilliantly naive one

The world has spun and left me behind
no time to wait on the tortured minds
Leave me to myself so I can deceive
myself one last time before I leave

No More:
Adam Cooper (2002)

I can feel the sun, beating on my back
thought you were the one, but now you lack
all the things you held, before you left
I'm no longer labelled, and you haven't wept
I will journey on now, without you here
I am not sure how, or what to fear

the blood has been bled
the tears have been cried
the heart has been broke
the sadness has been felt
but no more
no, no more

I can now make it on, through this lonely life
our times are now gone, that cuts like a knife
but I know I am close, to finding what I need
dodging the deathblows, refusing to bleed
I can make it through, make it on my own
I may still miss you, but I am never alone.

the blood has been bled
the tears have been cried
the heart has been broke
the sadness has been felt
but no more
no, no more, no more, no more

I can't feel it any more
I won't feel it any more
It is what I make it
I don't want it any more
don't want to feel any more

Stray:
Adam Cooper (2002)

When you wake in the morning
is it me that you think about?
my memories, are you storing?
or think of me with no doubt?
we've died our many deaths
but yet I'm still in deep
I fall deeper with each breath
but tears I no longer weep

too many feelings to let go
too many heartaches to stay
so in our world of constant woe
I will forever continue to stray

Our time seems to have past
and I can't seem to let go
The days move on oh so fast
but feelings move so slow
When I can finally release
all that I have held so dear
please don't forget me please
being forgotten is all I fear

too many feelings to let go
too many heartaches to stay
so in our world of constant woe
I will forever continue to stray

The footprints of our past
slowly washed away
Nothing is meant to last
nothing ever stays
No matter how much it means
we all know and have seen

Transition:
Adam Cooper (2002)

I don't want to think about it
but I know it is time to go
I am not sure of the benefit
but it is the right thing to do
All my attempts and frustration
have only pushed you far away
and thrown us into damnation
I never wanted to see this day

Now we must go our seperate ways
maybe our paths will cross someday
and maybe then we will know
If it was the right way to go

I can't continue to hurt you
and can't continue to hurt too
all attempts of reconciliation
have backfired in transition
and have caused us more pain
and tears that flowed like rain
It is time we part and look on
I am afraid our chapter is gone....

Now we must go our seperate ways
maybe our paths will cross someday
and maybe then we will know
If it was the right way to go

Self-destruct
Adam Cooper (2002)

I feel you come near me
and hear you breathe
my eyes looking to see
my thoughts have deceived

and you are not there
and you have not been
and may never be
no one is ever free

the flowing wind whispers
deep inside my mind
my heart seems to listen
to its spinning lies
putting faith in deception
of the fragile soul
and in its indiscretions
it will forever fall

and we are not there
and we have not been
and may never be
no one was ever free

I have destroyed myself
and passed the blame
and I never tried to help
it was always the same
let myself tear me down
and never realized
and it was my own frown
my killer disguised

and I am not there
and I have not been
and may never be
I was never free

from me....

Fail to See
Adam Cooper (2002)

When I was a little boy
I looked ahead with joy
I always thought love would be easy
and could take you away
but what I found failed to please me
love, a hard game to play

now the reality
too much for me
how could I fail to see
the pain that love could be

I met my first girlfriend
never thought of an end
but I was left with a broken heart
to repair it with glue
never could repair all the parts
so unfortunately true

now the reality
too much for me
how I could fail to see
the pain that love could be

I moved on to another girl
thought time to take a whirl
lost virginity to a shallow whore
special now meant nothing
thought from life I needed more
hurting her was unnerving

now the reality
too much for me
how I could fail to see
the pain that love could be

then after it was gone
what I did was done
on I went to further destroy me
met another bad one
thought that nothing could be
felt good when it was done

now the reality
too much for me
how I could fail to see
the pain that love could be

Finally I had found love
so high and far above
all emotions I hadn't felt before
something so great I found
but it just happened once more
my heart thrown to the ground

now the reality
too much for me
how I could fail to see
the pain that love could be
the pain that life could be
the mess I made out of me

Alone I Walk:
Adam Cooper (2002)

Dirty jeans and dingy shirts
never tried to be a charlatan
rather not emphasize worth
not wanting to be used again
the crickets song, graces my lonely walk
continuing along, with myself I do talk
in my cloudy mind, nothing but me exists
I'm one of a kind, that is what I wished
I am my own friend, and worst enemy
I am my own kin, and all my family

Alone I walk tonight
searching for right
Alone I will walk again
until my heart I mend

Sometimes I think, sometimes I wish
that in a wink, we will all finish
this life we live, this hurt we feel
i've nothing to give, don't want to heal
never was a sycophant, couldn't stand to be
since I was an infant, stubborn has been me
in my cloudy mind, my life is fading
all my troubled kind, cruelly parading
I have given out, I have given in
I have no route, I am living sin

Alone I walk tonight
Searching for my life
Alone I will walk again
Until I aleve my pain
Alone I will continue with me
until I can no longer be
Alone I will always feel
Until nothing is real
Alone I walk tonight
Searching for my life

Fifth-Wheel:
Adam Cooper (2002)

hangin out with my friends every weekend
hoping tonight I won't have to pretend
that I am something I am not
I would rather die and rot
Hop in the short bus, turn stereo up
head to my friends and stop to pickup
short bus packed, now we're off
to the club so we can get sloshed

Don't have a woman or a problem
just got my friends to solve'em
me, fifth wheel, no one seems to care
as long as we are all together there

get to the club, now time to prowl
still searching for my next gal
walk up to a hottie just to talk
nervous stutter so off I walk
sit on the bar stool, order shot
tap on the shoulder, is what I got
turn my head, to see a smile
first woman to smile for awhile

Don't have a woman or a problem
just got my friends to solve'em
me, fifth wheel, no one seems to care
as long as we are all together there

Friendly Voice:
Adam Cooper (2002)

why did she ever care any at all?
just sat there awaiting my fall.
I never felt so high as right now
these tiny sweat beads on my brow
show me I am doing it right
and I may see them tonight
I felt through these lonesome years
there is really nothing in fears

always thought too much,
of the girls.
never cared for the touch,
of love's swirl
Now, I don't expect too much,
from the world.

placed a phone call at 1:00 a.m.
knew I would only get the machine
wanted to hear a friendly voice
knew who I called was my choice
the voice spoke of vacancy
and echoed its complacency
not a call to her, but a friend
that will be there at the end