Spock's Beard

NARRATOR: Another 4th of July Another pie in the sky Another man hears the call Another snake in the grass Another tire's been slashed Another man takes the fall And like a dream dressed in white Fast as a trick of the light You see the vision of every man...

Sid was wild when He was a kid Never quite understood why he did just what he did Now he wonders why nobody likes him Now he wonders why he can't get any respect His is the same old story (yet another chapter in your book) He fell flat in his moment of glory...

Every story has two sides But no one ever wants to hear mine No no one ever wants to hear mine Sometimes it's like I don't exist I'm number one on everyone's most hated list Tearing me down is something no one can resist You don't know What it's like to sink...

This is the story of a guy named Sid Who lost his heart when he was just a kid Don't judge him on the things that he did This is the story of a guy named Sid Just how far will any one man go Can you turn back at the end of the road Feel the shock as your real...

I was born and then I rose It came to me and then I froze I lost my voice I couldn't see I felt the sweat pour out of me The limelight dimmed and turn me in All my deeds turned to sin The flesh upon my skin began to crawl 

I can't help the way that I am Cause it was you that made me You never offered to lend a hand So I did it for myself I did it for myself I know there's something missing Got to find a way to make it happen It's been such a long long time Got to find a way to...

We followed the strange map of his memory Back through the landmarks of a life Though sometimes painful he’d remember A world of splendor and wonders to behold As he told his story He was lost in the land of the angels And the red temples in the trees In the...

Voices ringing out Voices all about... They don’t think I thought this out And they all think I should just fall in line But that’s my plan to make them doubt Keep my intentions cryptic by design My ear pressed up against the wall The footsteps coming down th...

SNOW: And when we touch the future dies I see the face of my demise I'm all alone without a friend I see my fate; my bitter end Thought I was the bigger man But all I've done is a grain of sand Thought I gave the best of me But all it was was vanity All is v...

All on a Sunday I woke in the morning But my head said too soon So I slept until noon In the blink of a memory My consciences left me And it stayed gone until The sun came to fill the room I wanna live just like you I wanna feel like you do I wanna lay it dow...

In dreams I reach to touch your perfect face again In dreams you never cry or walk away But I wake to the truth like daylight streaming in I never found the way, the words to make you stay Photographs and falling leaves Scattered dust of memories The poems I...

We mapped the waves in the ocean Bridged the clouds in the sky Grew our wings in a maze of emotion Found our will to fly We lit the land of believers With words we burned into stone We held our ground in the war of deceivers Claimed it as our own We're dream...

You'd best not return take the money and run Said a well-meaning friend to this prodigal son I know where you're going don't care where you've been Cause you've already lost more than you'll ever win Here's a man whose time has past While crime is marching on...

We turned our backs as the enemy landed Handed them guns then got out of their way No one's surprised by the way it all ended It's well documented now there's nothing to say Cause they know They know we know They know They know we know Some took the last tra...

We're dreaming in the age of answers We're breathing in eternity While the future flows and dances As far as the mind can see 

Let's get this engine started Pack up the trunk with all we own No lookin' back we're our way We're restless and open-hearted Flowers in a junkyard garden Can't think of a reason we should stay As long as we ride Readin' the road Doesn't even matter Where we'...

Earth - dancing 'round the fire Come - meet the western sky Life - walking on a wire Reach - to know the reason why At the end of the day You'll be lying in a suit of Grey At the end of the day You'll be fine They - won't do you any favors ('Till the slate i...

WATCH OUT NOW TAKE CARE BEWARE Of thoughts that linger Winding 'round inside your head And the pain that often lingers In the dead of night In the dead of night Beware of darkness WATCH OUT NOW TAKE CARE BEWARE Of greedy leaders Who take you where you should...

A murder of crows On an old phone line That runs along the road Lean and hungry Poised to dive Dinner's in the ground below Come on down Walk a crooked mile With your open hearts in hand Shake the years off Make your way It's straight line out of Broken promi...

Wednesday It's suppository time again Ain't it grand? Friday I get my leg back on again I'll get to stand 'Cuz it's a cakewalk on easy street It's a new kind of day It's a good time The best you ever had It's the new-fangled way Air-raid Sirens in the night...

I don't want to be alone anymore, Why can't I be somebody else? Why must I see through these strange eyes? I won't take too much of your time on the telephone, Just me and the sunset sky along Some kind of cloudburst in my mind I'd like to leave it behind Bu...

SNOW: Carie Won't you come and see me, the clouds have bid the sun Let's take a chance and run with just what we can carry Carie Won't you come and save me, I am of the earth But you are like a church with one hand in the sky And a face that answers why Won't...

I dreamed a journey And left to begin it I opened my mind But I fell deep down in it Lost at the crossroads of two worlds Watching the future unwind I was blind to a truth I Always knew CARRY ON When your whole world comes apart There's a place for you to sta...

Finally got caught up We thought we had it made Then life stepped in and sent another mouth to feed our way Once our world was more than fighting traffic kids and bills Working all day straight into the night No time for chasing thrills Dancing through the la...

We played the liberation game They gave a war - someone came We dropped the torch . . . easy Let's all go down and dance in the rain Anything could happen then Which scared the king and all his men »We better kill this feeling We've been wrong before It could...

Day for night I can't wait 'til the time is right Like a gun waits for war Like the sun waiting for a light Pound away Get it done in just half a day 'Neath the sweltering sky Get it done, don't ask why Don't you want to live my way? Living day for night Don...

THE ADDICT: Richy Rich got high on the high life Ron the rage it raged into my life The Dow Jones it took on new meaning I'd pick my feet before every high-powered country club meeting The Devil's got my throat I'm goin' down that's all she wrote The Devil's...

THE ADDICT: Hey, ain't that Snow He looks like he's flyin' Pick him up and bring him along We'll show him a good time The Devil's got my throat I'm goin' down that's all she wrote The Devil's got my throat I'm goin' down that's all she wrote The Devil's got...

Broke and dazed down a burning road Stopped to have a smoke while the world was ending Through a blizzard of ash and snow Praying with a friend but there's no pretending Twisting time and fate had found us All alone All alone Carry us back to a better way Ca...

Once a lost soul raced his shadow Down a dark road out of town Tried to leave himself behind him EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS Like a dagger through the heartland Over gravel dust and glass Storm-dark clouds and neon halos EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS...

See the girls at the gate they’re gathering For a chance in the big machine While the lens of the camera’s focusing At the edge of the in-between Some will get to where they’re going Find a place they’ve always been Never understand the mystery Turn around a...

If I come to break your balls It's alright If you can't keep from climbing the walls It's alright When the clouds are closing in It's alright No I will not give in It's alright You can feel my every move Sooner or later I'll refuse To let you into my good gra...

Flow Sunlight gliding Children sighing In their dreams Never hiding True believer You are ever Forever The great deceiver Will never boil your blood Or swallow you whole...yeah... Shocked outrageous I have slipped in the slime Touch me - I'm contagious Seepi...

A lost man draws his final card Then leaves the Land of None The sun's last light dies in the west His journey's just begun To where the faithful form a line To join the dream parade A slow dance with the sandman Where promises are made I'll melt into you he s...

CARRIE: You're a Freak Boy You're a Freak Boy You're a Freak Boy How could you think I'd love you You're a toothpick So pathetic You make me sick I barely even know you I took my turn in your prayer line I felt something more like a warning They all saw you...

SNOW: I'm a Freak boy I'm a Freak boy I'm the milk left out until morning I'm a Freak boy Everlasting I'm a bomb set off without warning now I'm a Freak boy I'm a Freak boy now On the street now Barely breathing They don't call me Snow it's too charming So...

Part 1: THE DARKNESS It’s everywhere that I go It’s everything that I see And I don’t know how to fight it What was down is now up And what was up has gone down This scene has lost all its spirit If you’re not going Every minute of every day You’ll end up s...

Put on your game face Move to a better place Floating in deep space There is no real escape Leave it to your fate Try not to get irate No talk no live debate All in there's no escape You're movin' like a star Come on don't be late You can alleviate Good for...

Listen to the whisper of the rain Voices in the mist Beyond your window And you remember Days of love she spun a web of chains That wrapped around your heart And when you held her You held forever Green to grey As forever slipped away And down through the yea...

All that is shall be in the world What is shall be in the world All that is shall be in the world What is shall be in the world How can it be not what it is When being is in itself That which it is destined to be Because it is what it is All that is shall be i...

Look Another heart is beating But how? Why? There must be some way to know So many roads are weaving And I Wish I knew which way I should go Go the way you go You can't know what you don't know Go the way Go the way you go So You say the world...

When all that's good seems to wear you down When the river is far and wide And you can't stand up for falling down You're a believer who's found they lied And the past has your hands firmly tied Try ... to find a way Try ... to say goodbye to yesterday Goodby...

Burned by their fields on a cold stainless day Blown by the wind - they got nothin' to say I can't look the other way Just to stay out of harm's way Toes in the dirt - here's a fork in the road Blood on my shirt and a lump in my throat I can't look the other...

08. Wherever You Stand (DVirgilio & Okumoto) Born from the hands of all men The things we do are nothing new But I feel it changin' But I don't buy that way of thinkin' To many robots in the cue What they tryin' to do? It's a crazy world in which we liv...

Staring into the black, it’s all I see Holed up in this shroud of obscurity Inhabiting nothing or it’s inhabiting me It’s the ultimate anonymity I set it in motion, I set it right I said what I said then I said goodnight Now my clock’s set forward and I can’t...

Roaming with the rats Worth more dead than alive Hiding from a hundred guns Running to survive You wonder when the bullets will finally come Tracking every step I followed you for days Slowly slipped inside your head Can’t you place my face? I’m one of the ma...

SNOW: Help me I'm dying Help me I'm dying now And as the whirlwinds disappeared I looked around and I was here The clouds were clearing from my eyes My life stood still and began to rise And all the faces round about Began to smile and call me out No time to...

I was just a boy A rough and restless child All skin and bones and thistles A tough weed growing wild Someday I'd be an astronaut And make my way up to Mars But I was like a monkey With my hand stuck in a jar I was holding on to something That I couldn't make...

SNOW: As the sun burns my eyes I am pierced to the core Everyday I feel dead Nothing feels like before When my friends come to play I won't answer the door When they come in the night I won't be here no more Help me I'm dying My soul is crying Help me I'm dy...

THE EGO: I'm the guy who lurks In the heart of every man I'm the creepy jerk Dressed up like your dearest friend I am Jonah's whale flying friendly sail I'm the mind you're living in I - I'm the guy I'm the guy who thinks Of the press and interviews Like to...

Hey there, would you like to ride On the best event since suicide Hey, people come and board the train Come anesthetize your frazzled brain Hey you, Mister fancy pants Don't play it safe - come take a chance Hey, Mrs. I don't really care Come along with us, th...

They rage into the night Cloaked in gowns of thunder And the rising tide Your flesh will start to burn with the hunger Your soul will open wide All the devils that tormented you All the angels that you never knew Into the depths you will plunder You will plund...

Break my heart Break it like you mean it Cause you won't get another chance Steal my thunder Suck the air out from my lungs Tear me down Throw me in the garbage Get some gasoline and light a match Turn me into ash Or I might be comin' on back Is this love Is...

Part 1:HOMESICK FOR THE ASHES Weary I was walking A disassembled man I wandered through creation A ghost upon the land Cloaked in threads of all my lifetimes Deep-stitched into bone Like a tapestry of shadows Acid-etched in stone Longing to remember The day...

June Came upon us much too soon Then was gone Gone Like the mountains of the moon At dawn Then the sun came up on a sleepy day And never went down at night And the crowd kept on singin' Waste Away but it just didn't feel right And the prince and the drummer a...

Children yet to be born Don't you mourn me now 'Cause the crows are in the corn Lay it down, lay it down Old man's on his porch His house burning down When he passes you his torch Lay it down, lay it down And the young man comes To beat his drums And the old...

SNOW: I never saw such a place in all my life This is tomorrow's song I think I've waited too long Can't seem to see through the scraping of the sky And now it seems so wrong To think I spent such a... Long time suffering and crying to the sky Long time suffe...

SNOW: I think I'II give her a call to see if she's up It's kinda late but you know it wouldn't surprise me If I get her machine again You see there's a problem I have And have had for a long, long time I wish I was blind as a bat Cause no matter where I'm at...

SNOW: I see a boy who watched his father Be beat to death right on the living room floor As he watched through the door - You watched through the door Now you're a young man filled with anger You know your life on earth could mean so much more Don't you know...

NARRATOR: From a world that's never ending From a sky beyond the skies A child is born And love is made alive Like a flaw that seeks perfection With a will that will survive A child is born And love is made alive Overture INSTRUMENTAL 

SNOW: From a world that's never ending From a sky beyond the skies A child is born And love is made alive Like a flaw that seeks perfection With a will that will survive A child is born And love is made alive Wind At My Back SNOW: And you are the wind at...

A baby was born in a small town yesterday He's a magical child with a cosmic death ray But his mother always wanted to play Such a long way down But mommy comes back She always comes back to get me Mommy comes back, she always comes back And she never will fo...

Take a giant leap Off the only ledge you know Kiss the ground above your head Surf the blue sky down below Taste the air that's burning sweet With all the words you can't take back Eighteen orchids at your feet So ride the one that leads the pack You're a gri...

[God says] Melt the ice by summer Turn the grass from green to gold Live the greatest story ever told Don't mess the sacred mother If things go wrong Hey, it's alright But don't kid yourself I know what you'd really like You'd like to be in my shoes Wouldn't...

Melt the ice by summer Turn the grass from green to gold Live the greatest story ever told And you'd like to be in my shoes Wouldn't you now Wouldn't you now 

I am drifting on the water Far out from the land Moving through my memories As I try to understand If I wake tomorrow wiser Or it's time to shed my skin And let go of a lifetime That I can't have back again All the love we leave behind All the work we leave u...

From over the mountains A gathering storm A vision of empires fading The wind and the water The red sky's reborn We're safe in a garden waiting Lost in the light of our golden ages Found in a book hidden on the pages Words for a time we'll wake on a perfect d...

Well I'm out On the edge Yes I'm out on the... Edge Put on your feet Put on your face Put these people in their place Check your hat Check your coat Try to keep your checks afloat Don't you crack 'Cause they might see That you're not who you're supposed to...

The clicking wires The ticking clocks They're in my brain In my brain In my brain Like a wave of shocks Bang goes the world The bright sun cracks There's a train There's a train There's a train And I'm frozen to the tracks ONOMATOPOEIA ONOMATOPOEIA That's en...

SNOW AND COMPANY: Open up the flood gates in your mind that you might be set free Open up the windows left behind and stand in what could be When something shifts the bulb will light and you may understand Something beyond your sense of sight far from the worl...

SNOW: Red forest green As you stand at the waterfall And there's no in between You go back or you trust the fall And the man says that'll be forty-five And the best of your mind's crying 'take the dive' Open wide the flood gates And let love take your soul O...

I have never been in this For all the fortune and fame All I ever wanted Was to be in the game A part of something bigger Something bigger then me Inspired from love of the moment And being what I was born to be Sometime a dream gets wasted Sometimes it all...

NARRATOR: Behold the man, the stranger, the working man's son He reflected the mountain Now all souls can see what's been done And the word spread fast as wild fire But the people changed as the wind swept higher And the crowd's got huge, man, you should've s...

Got a locket on a string She caresses as she brings me jasmine tea Breaking out of who she was She confesses that she's not sure how And I cannot explain now But the rain keeps coming down It's the rain of revelation Just keeps comin' down Just keeps comin' d...

(I) Strange What You Remember (II) Words Of Forever The first breath of summer in warm morning rain Where crimson flowers covered the ground The world faded 'round us We fell to our knees Amazed at the love we had found She is everything The sacred, the pure...

I close the shutters tight and fall asleep To the sound of the fan The wind flows over me And I dream you're not very far Cause you're my shining star Shine your light on me Awake I feel the blood rush to my skin I call you out and somehow let you in And I dr...

Like a star with a blue moon rising You complain but you keep surprising yourself Like a dog who's been kicked all over You tried to quit but you can't stop kicking yourself It's the truth - it's a lie - love will never die Don't you see it's like tryin' to...

SNOW: Looks like I'm goin' out with these dudes... 

THE HOMELESS: I've been here since long ago waiting for the end I don't need to have a home but I could use a friend So many people they don't give a damn They look away when they see what I am I've been like half a man but I could be whole Won't you be...

We are praying for the day Waiting for the skies above to open We are waiting for our gods to show themselves We are sanctified and chosen Hearts unbroken Hurt unknown... We’ve been counting revolutions As we circle ‘round the sun A million years of evolution...

Hell, I don't know why, but Sometimes they stay, sometimes they go I tried & I tried but like mercury It just slipped through my fingers Golden apples on a silver tray You know what they say, well... Sometimes they stay, sometimes they go Sometimes they s...

Mary was on Face The Nation Sunday morning ten o'clock It's a very strange world In a very strange time Jimmy makes a handsome living Juggling weapons in the park It's a very strange world In a very strange time And so it goes slowly down the road And so I s...

NARRATOR: Behold the boy - The stranger, the working man's son With skin like white lightning And eyes like two shots from a gun They'll teach him to pray and work everyday He'll learn how to sweat in the sun But God has a place - A place for him in His plan...

Back and forth up and down I feel my wayaround Finding everything but you My view of you has grown soft Got grace but something’s lost It’s probably the truth I’m candy coated salt and I’m a dimming light My fuzzy logic is skewed confusing wrong with right T...

I had a mother chasing planets Shopping doctors for her Vicodin A weekend father absent Searching dungeons for some discipline School was like a prison The zombies ruled and the masses just gave in I had to run - breakout - I had to run I didn't see the worl...

THE PROSTITUTE: Hey Snow White and the Harlem Knight You make a perfect pair Skin and bones and a hatchet faced homes Hey, what you doin' 'round here Why don't you go back to Central Park Or stick around and see why love is art In my sin I've sunk right in I...

(I) Prelude To The Past (II) The Ultimate Quiet (III) A Blizzard Of My Memories The windshield explodes Like a bomb packed with diamonds There's a deafening silence Time flows to a crawl As the ballet of the impact Spreads out across the blacktop Angels danci...

Can we talk about our last conversation? It was heated I got burned And please don't act like nothin' even happened Just listen and learn We've invested too much time This is yours as much as mine What if I told you that I never loved you? What would you do?...

There is no peace Here in my mind There's no way to see We're all born blind To some place some time When we could feel like We're joined inside We can't always See it with our eyes But there is a world apart from what we know There is a time/place the eyes w...

I really don't care if you're not in my sight I really don't think but I think I'm right It don't bother me none if you're depressed or depraved 'Cause I'm not the one and you don't need to be saved As the sunrise comes down the doorway And the snow whit...

Well I'm the man with the scam And though I've never sewn a stitch I've stumbled onto something Guaranteed to make me rich All I gotta do is fool one Imperial Nitwit You'll never not see clothes Like you won't see those Every inch of stitchin’ missin’ From yo...

Introduction The Good Don't Last We could have been God's dream We could have lived the LIFE! Could have done great things Man, it would have been so nice It could have been me Could have been you We could have done anything we wanted to do Ant I don't know h...

I: From Nowhere II: One Note One note timeless Came out of nowhere It wailed like the wind and night It sought no glory It added no meaning Not even a reason why No thought No need to say something No message to sell It played without a buzz or a...

I fell in a stream Neck deep in needles A slow motion sunlit scene I woke in a world With two kinds of people The more and the less extreme Was it some kind of dream? Or is it real? Then I awoke To then white policemen Who held me until I choked They brought...

One man said in sign Don't you want to feel o.k.? And the sighted man said to the blind Don't you look at me that way again Don't you look at me that way again So they shared a glass of wine And they started to feel o.k. again Then one said one more time said...

I: The Dream What Makes a dream So very different From any other dream Where is that Straight line That I can hold up To the light And say no! This is not right This does not Stand up In the light II: One Man Call me cavanaugh I'm the one with the caveman jaw...

I'm the man behind the curtain The one who pulls the strings Got my finger on the button But my mind's on other things I'm the most impressive person No one's ever really seen, oh In the shadow of the spotlight Always waiting in the wings I'm ready for my clo...

The person you’re afraid you are You can never let them see You have to work so hard To make it look so easy You’ve been trying to be who you’re not For so long you almost forgot You’re not your identity You’ve got eternity The man you’re afraid you are He’s...

Living life at ease He tries to keep it straight Filling all the cracks Unlocking all the gates Heart - Style - Grace He gives a little back Makes it very nice Never runs away Rolls his dirty dice Everybody's got to do what they got to do From him and her t...

Rain a plague of drowning days Grey and cold Time in time she went away Truth untold Down the road through the gate Here are flowers moss and stone Clear the path to the door The quiet house is now her own Safe the secrets that she knew Still we learned Hope...

It seems he never lost his way Through grievous dreams and shattered days While leaving words weighed on his mind His road is winding to an end And now it's time that he defends The world and friends he left behind The slow crash landing man unfolds A...

I: Introduction/The Water I am the water I am the ocean king I own the red sky I am the one who makes... Dreams... Real II: When It All Goes to Hell There you are It's soft and it's red Floating free In your own private bed Then one day You're p...

Stand said the oracle and speak the truth All we want is information Tell us the names of every traitor who Took up arms against the nation In my mind are faces In my hands I hold their destiny I will pray forgiveness If their names escape me Fear not the i...

These days are drifting through me Like faces in the clouds Memories lift me up Stare me down I open a window close the door And watch the shadows cross the floor Never talk too much about it There was a time When all of our dreams were spun like sunshine Thr...

Thoughts are thinking Thoughts are coming Thoughts are screaming Thoughts keep coming Thoughts are coming Thoughts are coming down Thoughts are thinking; Thunk from knowing Thoughts repeating; Harm is showing Thoughts forever keep me going down I thought my...

I thought I'd come to you and say All the things I had on my mind I thought it might be really great To show you how I feel inside Then I think ... MAYBE NOT ... You wouldn't speak to me I would be left behind We'd be through if you knew All the things in my...

I'm just a junkyard now This is my trash They burnt me down somehow Flicked me off like a cigarette ash But time has come today; Time has come today I've been a patron saint I've had my mouth washed out And I've been one big complaint I turned myself into tw...

I never had a name No one knows where I came from But I came just the same I don’t know why I’m here or where I’ve been I got nothing left to say But I’m gonna say it anyway I can dance on the rain If someone’s out there waiting for me Laugh though the pain I...

Out there where we're living on the dark side of the day Something's in our way What is hard to say Rushing in and out like players in a phantom band Life is out of hand As night falls on the land Time will not begin - It's in your mind We'll get out w...

Some people are like gravy Spilled on God's Sunday shirt Some people are always getting better Some people just get worse Some people only waste so long before they waste away Some people only waste so long until they waste away Waste away now Some people th...

THE KNIGHT: Hey, hey, hey - Welcome to New York City We got the hottest girls and they'll do anything you want Hey there whitey, so white you're kinda pretty Why don't you come on in, depending on how much cash you got I LIKE IT! Look, boy, where you from? I...

I stand by the bed watching her sleep Trouble in mind Still waters run cloudy and deep Down to the core of our small world Sure as the sun burns under dawn There comes a time A time when the last straw breaks A bad choice turns easy to make When nothing seems...

Born from the hands of all men The things we do are nothing new But I feel it changin' But I don't buy that way of thinkin' To many robots in the cue What they tryin' to do? It's a crazy world in which we live We take take take and rarely ever give The sense...

THE HOMELESS: How can you be Like a sky stretched out before me And the world is turning your way Even darkness is better this way Can it be true That it all comes rushing from you When my resistance is gone And there's nothing that I can lean on You are the...

The skies are clear, the water warm Lying here beneath the palms Wish I were here but I'm home Watchin' TV with Dave Central Park, the Empire State, Brooklyn Bridge, man, that'd be great But I can't get away I'd be late for TV with Dave Wish I were here I've...

The rainy days have come again Feel like breakin' down Feel like breakin' down Memories of long lost friends Come and flood my head All the things we said Swords and knives and fork and spoons For the killing feast Alive or deceased Spinning round and round my...