Shadow Gallery

Remember I painted pictures of you And I never found my way out I spent a lifetime of dreams in the fields of your eyes Lay me down when the rain covers you And I'm afraid of the emptiness holding my thoughts I see blue I see grey all the while And when...

I am only just a broken spirit All the things unseen right before my eyes How could I have ever been so blind To the truth behindbitter lies? I feel so lost and so alone in this room tonight Is nothing ever going to change? I've lost my will I need some...

Outside the twilight rides high And whispers of love sound deep in the night Hope and promise of peace in our land Is this Christmastime? Dark winter watches our fire And brings us promise of a new day Distant eyes have gone a long way Too far to see...

I remember there were Fights and screaming in the streets that night I had to run from the Insinuations all about my life It didn't matter I was Armed and ready I was on the run Up in the mountains I've got Food and shelter I'm a loaded gun Steal away...

There I was I was hanging around Two Fingers down one to go Then suddenly from below she emerges Sultry swingin' from a rope "You've got something I need so just give me your hand" Trust is something that I just got to give into My Black widow or friend?...

Out of the blue Everything seemed so new The sun rising lights up my face Fading from green No more thoughts to deceive For seasons of lost hope may change Ahh - so many different colors Ahh - The colors are changing Moments in time When the words did...

I look into your blue eyes deep pools I had no idea I know hunted down from coast to coast Circumstance prevailed it was hard on us both. I've run hard, I'm so tired from the chase So desperately I'm aching The waning of the starlight Embers turn to ash as I f...

Hold onto these Memories I grant you The gifts of our lives Lost in the sands of time Deserts forever Relentlessly barren I crossed them all In the blink of an eye I command light and solar winds To transport me The deepest assurance I speak with my...

Sun is low now in the sky soon the cold will start to bite and I'm kicking some old empty can down a barren street yah step into a dark saloon peer across the smoke filled room I can feel her a mile away she smiles and beckons me Now we're d...

On the run from Suicide Love breeches Temptation On the edge boy What's inside You better look You better run and hide Storms coming A hurricane Tear the roof from the The foundation Crystal ball smashed again It's all there in the balance Hangin...

Picture home years ago and tell me it's you Of all the roads a man could take How mine has lead form you And like a lighthouse Set on a rocky coast amidst the storm Your touch was warm and real Looking out your window Just what might lie ahead Dreams s...

I believe in the afterlife We walk the ancient pathways of the sky Through the Heavens hallowed halls Cross the epochs and the eons carved in time Our drift through life is mist A smoke filled mirror gone Returned to dust There's a chill in the air tonight As...

I must have stood for hours The mist of dawn still rising Brushing from my face Cold tears of finally knowing The world that we had twisted The years of strength and glory Were wicked and obscene And there we stood so proud What legends we must be Rea...

I was taken to a town well hid Back room of a library rather well equipped Guarding stands the Archer outside my door And through the pain It strikes me strange what life prepares you for Day and night I'm crafting Sleepless as I shape encrypted lines, night a...

From the first gray light of the morning I've been gone On my journey towards the stars Will I know when I reach the other side The earth so blue it's like I'm dreaming Now I'm on my way Tainted shadows fall like rain Through the dark vast weight only si...

[Special Edition Bonus Track] [a) Pigs on the Wing - Part I] [Mike Baker:] If you Didn't care what happened to me And I didn't care For you We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain Occasionally glancing up through the rain Wondering which of the...

Walking down some highway midnight North Dakota Somewhere 'round late fall I knew that the time Has come for me I'm willing a million stars above me I tried to catch their fall I tried to catch their fall Inside I felt so empty A stranger to this world s...

[THE GATHERING THE NIGHT BEFORE:] Time has come The dawn shall see us off again Glory rides The stars shall be our watching guide We know God is ready And he's willing To fill our veins it takes my mind away Hot sun Splitting thunder Deafening Viol...

You and I Lie awake for hours Separated by the world Well I can't see you You can't see me But somehow I can feel you Slip inside my soul Gold dust in my hands and always in my eyes I wait in the desert for you Moonbeams on my waves and always in my skies I c...

Between the whispers A lonely candle flickers and it slowly fades Into its grave And as if knowing Enchantment slowly runs her fingers down my spine A jagged line Who waits for me Now who waits for me Who waits so long so long so long And shall I wait for da...

Too late for us now? I sat alone and I spoke out loud On this darkened afternoon The windows to my room A solemn shutter on the world Where I used to laugh and dream For the first time in so long I make My way down to the street and watch The people as...

Long ago a living story Walked the whole world phrophesying Told of days when the hand of God Pulls away from the world All hell starts breaking out I see it clear It pounds the cold into your life It turns to gray what's black and white I've torn thei...

And now you've gone away I begged you baby please don't go Away and leave me here I am broken I am broken And I know Winter is bearing down On wings of Angels so your soul Is in the hands of God My tears on the wind 

Future's here The time has come to pass the torch Now go and touch the sky every time that you breathe I hope you've learned To covet not the evil ways Live your life Free free From carnal lust Hedonistic decadence and lies Are you strong? Turn from...

Days at a time pass In the dead of the night is when you come to me You've got so much to say Just spread your wings and ride On the electric universe Behind your computer What do you picture when you read my Words and thoughts and dreams? Do they all...

I was calling just to say I loved you I know you're out there tonight Long time ago I held you tight My heart knows of a broken promise I know of fortune that came and went too far with my emotion Who could ignore the cold Every time you missed the lov...

Good day my fellow citizen I don't mean to intrude But allow me to get right down to the point We've monitored transmissions We calculate your moves Did you really think you're hidden from our sight? Your name's been added to a list that's been compiled...

Yesterday is over Stripped of my clearance - fired I don't know what to do Haunted by empty faces Victims of warring madness If they only knew Their world's a bloody mess Some corporate bottom line I tried to ask and they treat me like a threat And t...

Of all the stories that have ever been written I've been assailed Right off the page Winter fell across the floor in silence I just stopped and wondered why Well it's a cold and strange sad situation Off the shore tossed by by the waves My every other word mi...

Asked if I had ever known your name I replied it sometimes slips away Answers now like sand shall fill my hands slipping through my fingers to the floor and blown away Somewhere out beyond our reach lie the answers to the questions at hand Time surviv...

Left on my own don't know where I should begin to look it's involuntary instinct Controls my every footstep, westward through haze The voice of shadows whispers in my ears Alaskan forests to the sea Keeping all faith alive I fall into the rain Let me go, let...

[A) EMPOWERED] Are your deeds so really bad? Your secret life untold Please tell me Just try me But you say goodnight and shut me down until tomorrow When you come to life again And reveal just maybe What's going on inside of you The real you Strange...

Not long ago a plan was conceived where all could be revealed Critical info delivered in secret, but kept out in plain sight We're underground 'cause we have enlisted Got data in our groove, yes, they gave us the guns They made us the pilots, a battalion of s...

All alone and standing in the rain early mornings whispering my name seems so distant and cannot reach me now flying high above you I bring to you this word for your love, for your life, for your song Look around and see them fall to pray troubled water...

Brand new day Somewhere so far away A global village awakes and starts to crack the open airway's Cause the tiger's escaped He tore right out of his cage It's like a spark to a flame Assimilating it's collective on the way Like turning on a light the br...

There I was all alone all by myself And you were just a ghost behind a screen The few short months we spent Long distance late nights just the two of us I've grown to picture you I've pictured you with me There are things I've just not told you Works o...

[Guitar Solo - Gary] Cold night on the mountain top And it's the dead of the winter and the Snow and the ice swirlin' all around But we're not climbing down From the top of the tower We are filled with the power of our age Young and proud Hard and loud On th...

Lying by the dying flame Drifting off to sleep She drops the black leather journal She's been clutching tight She's a bio-engineer, hazard level four She works the hot zone all the day The demon seed smallpox weapons grade Bought from Israeli intelligence Gon...

[Mike] So I set out early morning Through the forests deep and wide I am vested and determined To bring her back alive As I knife my way through dense fog In the silence of the field Stands a soldier like a statue With a cross bow strained at me [Archer] Don'...

Sometimes I've got a world on my shoulders that cast long shadows cross my eyes where traced out footsteps on the shores of the sea of sorrow reflect the changes in my life Holding out in a darkened room long before the fall of rain shall come listen t...

Nightime falls around me darkness closes in all the people who are sleeping safe and soundly content knowing we keep watch throught each and every hour power so unknown won't stop the rain falling down my face Sleep for hours eludes me drifting through...

[Chapter 1:] Long ago the skies turned gray the fallen sun had gone away and left us cold until one thousand years would pass and we'd sail away Trapped within such misery we'd seen a light we'd never seen all crowned with gold through morning mist with t...

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to w...

Broken window broken dreams, nothing but a trail of tears Oh my God my little lady, where have they taken you - I never heard you scream Strange how pain etches patterns on your heart Just like frost grows on the window pain And cold's no elixir, the fractals...

It was a cold night But by the dawn's light The city streets began to swell and crawl I emerge then From the alley The tempest spirit now in my sight Well I have seen you You walk the wire Oh yes I know you very well You've got place in the Hamptons Jet off to...

Downtown I walk Through New York City so hot The summer swelter melting Got things on my mind right now In the alleys that I take They just don't give up an inch I turned and saw it all I watched him fall I tried to catch him But they knocked me out c...

Early morn I was up long before dawn I watched you sleep I counted every beat of your heart Now we both know we'll never go back there again Guilty as charged that's all Fallen snow - cover me Wash me pure - Hold me tight What else is there left for you and f...

Time came to leave You know there's something About the principle Of what goes on behind the scenes The military machine The way they led me on... Stiletto in the sand Thrusted down in anger Bloody to the handle Diamond red Machines of mass destructi...

Tonight I stood upon the crest and witnessed our decay The land that was our fathers lay in ruins at our feet And I dare not look out or into unseeing eyes Of mankind's blind ambitions and desires The wisdom of humanity is wasted on you all You pushed us...

Guns slung low and taught Iron fists re-grip and tighten down Pressing hard and close Scanning eyes alive search all around Unleash hell and fire Raining chaos crashing in The screaming in the streets calling far away I taste the shock The perfume of this war...