The plans that you made
Turned into survival this year
Without another chance
Could you ever have chosen
This moment, this time, this way

The love that you gave
Had left for another
The fire you tried to save
Was it ever the right thing
You wonder, going to, coming from

Moving pictures tell a story
You put one on your mantel shelf
More than a thousand words were spoken
Just an ageing reminder of yourself
Will you live to tell the story
Just one in a thousand words will do
When it comes time tomorrow morning
It'll be waiting in the moment for you

There's the sun comes rising in the morning
And we work the day to get ahead
Well the leaves still fall without warning
And we all go to and from
And the sun moves slowly overhead

The path that you lay
Tell me where will it take you from here
As long as love will stay
You will know on arrival
It was the right thing
Going to, coming from

The questions that you raise
Will be your survival this year
Without another chance
Take a last look around you
This moment this time, this way

There's the sun comes rising in the morning
And we work the day to get ahead
Well the leaves still fall without warning
And we all go to and from
And the sun moves slowly overhead

Garden Wall     return to top

It was the life I had wanted
Quietly tucked away in solitude
The way of contemplation
I till the father's garden
Father prays for rain today

But just like it happened in Eden
My attention was turned away
From the discipline of seen and not to say
What will I say to the father
Brown is not my color anyway
I think it over, think it over

Chorus 1:

So I got to climb the garden wall
Steal away into the city lights
I can hear the distant voices call
I know that life ust have another side

Steel and greys make the skyline
Where I go to make my home
And follow up my metro-aspirations
I come from the father's garden
To something I can call my own

But I am one in the face of a million
And starting to feel so small
In so much company, how can you feel so lonely?
I had in my mind a straighter line
I think it over, think it over

Chorus:

But I feel alright for now
'Cause I'm on the other side
And I'll make it through somehow
'Cause I'm on the other side

Sitting in some odd station
Bound for some different clime
A change of discipline to see what I can say
I'll always follow my passion and always have a wall to climb
I think it over, think it over

Whether walking down the avenue
Or sitting close to Mother Nature's side
Just a little time can change your view

You know that life can have another side

So I got to climb the garden wall
Steal away into the city lights
I can hear the distant voices call
I know that life must have another side

But I feel alright for now
'Cause I'm on the other side
And I'll make it through somehow
'Cause I know that there's another side

In Common   return to top

I sit and stare at my window story view
Of the neighbourhood, cityscape
December skies, angular lines
Rooftops paint a collage of grey, black and grey

Faces and bodies move about in the color
The streets below
Drifters move individual causes
Some sort of reason that tells them where to go
But I don't know

Chorus:

And I wonder about it
There's something we got in common
A golden braid
One thing that's made for two
Touch the water you make a wave
Rolling back to find me
Something you do is making it's way back to me
Put your finger on the one thing
That keeps us all in common
A golden braid
One thing that's made for two

The radio plays in Alice's room in the alley
Across the way
Sweet music is her only companion
The lover who can take her so far away far away

So I sit in my room
And I think about me and Alice
And the crowded streets below
Murders and minds movies and madness
Sometimes I want to cut the threads between us
Then I realize we're hanging on one line
A fine line

Chorus:

And if you lose I lose
That's something we got in common
A golden braid
One thing that's made for two
Touch the water you make a wave
Rolling back to find me
Something you do is making it's way back to me
Put your finger on the one thing
That keeps us all in common
A golden braid
One thing that's made for two

New Sun   return to top

They're building a great ball
Ball of fire
Toss it up and everyone below will get the shine

They call it the new sun
But I went to spy
It's Armageddon in spite of anyone's design

Chorus:

But it's
Too high, gonna burn me up
Too low, really get me down
Too close to what I can't imagine
Too far gone to turn around
I want my sun to last another day

Some celebrate the new season
That follows fire
Urban smoke will send a millon pieces flying high

They call it the big freeze
Say goodbye July
Nothing left but a single coal back star to light the sky

Chorus:

But it's
Too high, gonna burn me up
Too low, really get me down
Too close to what I can't imagine
Too far gone to turn around
I want my sun to last another day

Interlude:

I want to write my epitaph
Don't want to leave it to the new sun
Not gonna se my photograph
Sitting on a moon museum

The sun is the center of our universe
A million years still burning
I want to watch my children grow
Till the last star stops turning

They're building a new man
A teflon man
He's easy, a looker says everybody get it while you can

They call it the new breed
The follow the new sun
Talk of peace but always got their finger on the gun

But it's
Too high, gonna burn me up
Too low, really get me down
Too close to what I can't imagine
Too far gone to turn around
I want my sun to last another day

I want to write my epitaph
Don't want to leave it to the new sun
Not gonna se my photograph
Sitting on a moon museum

The sun is the center of our universe
A million years still burning
I want to watch my children grow
Till the last star stops turning

It'a new sun, another new sun

Alfred's Book One     return to top

INSTRUMENTAL

Is It Really     return to top

Like a child
Someone had to let you know
Counless times, playing the loser
Asking friends for answers to the questions everywhere

Like a man
Think on where you want to go
Expectations, broken dreams
Asking friends for answers that will get you through the tears
and they turn and say they've looked for years

Chorus:

Is it really so
Is it really so

Old man in the park
Not much left to gain or lose
He's lived the years win and lose
He told me not to worry, son
It's all in how you choose
And he turned and said
It's up to you

Is it really so
Is it really so

Is it really so
I just want to
I just want to know

The Wanderer     return to top

On a ship that sails tomorrow
Message on  abottle set to go
The time has finally come around for yes or no

Say goodbye to friends and lovers
You left them all behind you
When you made your choice to leave the fallen city

Have you ever lost your peace of mind
It may be somewhere up ahead
Or somewhere left behind
Miles behind you
So many miles to go
Who do I believe
Tell me who to follow

Chorus:

Something's happening
Can't explain
Why I keep on wandering
One more time
Go on the road
One more time
The story told

You're the wanderer
On a solo ship
You live your life
In a paper cup
You had a name
But you gave it up
You're the wanderer
Never say too much

So you leave the halls of education
You've been on the roll for several years
It's time you asked a question of your institution

On your way to see the world
Time to do, stop talking about it
Once you've gone you'll wonder how you lived
Without it

Tell me how the story goes
Who will I believe
Won't you tell me who to follow

Something's happening
Can't explain
Why I keep on wandering
One more time
Go on the road
One more time
The story told

You're the wanderer
On a solo ship
You live your life
In a paper cup
You had a name
But you gave it up
Wanderer
Never say too much

Wanderer
Never give it up