TALISMAN LYRICS

1. Tears in the Sky

World is turning
But society's standing still
Vows of Eden have burned
Through compassion's will

Now we're only human or so they say
Just another deformed analogy
Further from
What we all thought was near
Now the clouds are crying

Tears in the sky are falling down again
No sun tomorrow
Tears from the sky are raining
We're near the end

Peace, love and joy
Expressions oblivious
Talk is cheap in the words
That are dangerous

Now we're dumb and blind
And so misunderstood
Ignorance dims our
Our dare to recover
No more faith in life
No more surprise
If we never ever cease the crying

Tears in the sky are falling down again
No sun tomorrow
Tears from the sky are raining
We're near the end

Now we're only human or so they say
Just another deformed analogy
Further from
What we all thought was near
Now the clouds are crying

Can you hear the crying

2. Temptation

Fighting for the living, praying for the day
Freedom to deliver my design
Not the latest fashion, not the flavour of the year
Same old situation every time

But I'll tell you something, it ain't nothing
But nothing
Than a little blasphemous dissuasion
I'll give you to time chances
Three strikes and I'm dancing
I'll see you on the way up as you go down

It's O.K., it's alright
I'll be the one you always dreamed about
I'm O.K., I'm alright
The chosen one you just can't live without

The game is in my favour
Now your tail between your legs
Take a look at
Your consciousness today
Now I ain't burning bridges
But I ain't just your
Average ordinary man
Ain't gonna be pushed down
Ain't gonna be pushed away

It's O.K., it's alright
I'll be the one you always dreamed about
I'm O.K., I'm alright
The chosen one you just can't live without

A word to so-called visionaries blind to our design
While you buy your puppets lacking soul
You missed the boat and now you're
Saying we go back so far
Don't kid yourself
Cause we already know

But I'll tell you something, it ain't nothing
But nothing
Than a little blasphemous dissuasion
I'll give you to time chances
Three strikes and I'm dancing
I'll see you on the way up as you go down

It's O.K., it's alright
I'll be the one you always dreamed about
I'm O.K., I'm alright
The chosen one you just can't live without

It's O.K., it's alright
I'm the temptation
That you dreamed about
It's O.K., I'm alright
The chosen one you just can't live without

3. A Life

Momma, do you feel the pain as I'm traveling
Through the fields of your soul
Momma, please take my hand
Help me understand
'Cause I'm afraid to face this life alone

People, faces everywhere
Every time I turn I see another stop and stare
Too much, too soon, take a picture of the modern world
Televisionaries, hari-kari, quite contrary
You'd think the trials of life were scary
For a boy growing to a man
Now watch my flag unfurl, good god

The mirror on the wall shows a frightened man
The lessons I've learned could not explain
The meaning of love now sees through puzzled eyes
No one could define the joy and the pain, I'm born again

I'd die for your love if you'd take me in
True life begins, as I embrace another miracle
I live for your love, 'til the day we die with no tears to cry
I'll guide you through fear and desire, oh

All I know, in the shadows of where I've been
All I know, no more cares if I lose or win now I know
As I watch my children grow now I know
I'm fulfilling my mother's soul all I know
While the world is spinning around all I know
And the hands of time are ticking down now I know
I look back to my days of youth
Now I know, I'm much older now, but I'm not yet through

I'm still searching the keys of my life
The war's far from over inside

I died in your arms as your tears recite
Our pictured life, did I fulfill my prediction
Was it all I yearned to know, so long ago
If I had the chance to do it all again
I wouldn't change a thing

4. Sympathy

Could you ever believe the words
Of honor again
Like a disarrayed poet
Who's lost his yen
Could you ever believe love
And war hand in hand
To the core, life of Riley
Now wouldn't that b grand

I don't know, where I'm turning
I got it all my way yet I'm all alone
I'm all alone, the more that I try, now
The further I'm running

Could you ever feel emotion
For someone again
Seems your obscuring views are
The same as your friends
Could you ever think
Another would take it your way
Funny how the tables turn
When ties go astray

I don't know where I'm turning
I got it all my way yet I'm all alone
I'm all alone, the more that I try, now
The further I'm running

I'm a former lovechild looking for sympathy
I'm a master in the art
Of passion calamity

Could you ever believe in a perfect desire
Satisfaction begins
When the power is mine
Could you ever decide
That you've had enough
'Cause someday, someway
Somehow I'll finally call your bluff

5. All That Really Matters

Take all the pain you've turned to sorrow
No need to be afraid or ashamed
They say there's nothing ventured,
Nothing gained
So don't you turn your back again

And if creation as we know it
Would just crumble from our reach

All you could say is I shoulda, woulda
But by then it's too late

All that really matters
Is a truce will come in time
Visions torn and shattered will come
Back in a sign
All that really matters
When life is all but tears
Now take a look around you the answer
Will come in time

Honor is something gained,
Not granted
It all begins with thou and you
It's not all behind a secret meaning
You'll get your deserves that are due
Now given the chances
Life's bestowed you
Given the seasons washed away

Now don't you let me down
'Cause I won't allow
The words you love to say

6. Loveblind

There're times all my visions are
Black and white
The colours fade to gray
Every page draws me closer
To who I am
A dreamer lost in a daze

Dead and gone are the days of divinity
I won't pretend anymore

No one can know
No one knows,
So no one really cares when
Love leaves you blind and all alone

All the shame gathered
Through all the evidence
It turns me inside out
Turn the key, lock the door,
'Cause I won't let you in
It's 'cause I'm still in doubt
No one can know
No one knows,
So no one really cares when
Love leaves you blind and all alone
No one can know
No one I know honors
The shadows sorrow
Love leaves you blind and all alone

Would you know if the lines I've
Submitted
Could relate to you

No one can know
No one knows, so no one really cares when
Love leaves you blind and all alone
No one can know
No one I know honors
The shadows sorrow
Love leaves you blind

7. Crazy

[originally by Seal]

A man decides after seventy years
That what he goes there for is
To unlock the door
While those around him criticise and sleep

Through a fractal on a breaking wall
I see you my friend
And touch your face again
Miracles will happen as we speak

But we're never gonna survive
Unless we get a little crazy
No we're never gonna survive
Unless we are a little crazy

Yellow people runnin' through my head
One of them's got a gun
To shoot the other one
Yet together they were friends
At school

If I were there when you first took the pill
Then maybe
Miracles will happen as we speak

But we're never gonna survive
Unless we get a little crazy
No we're never gonna survive
Unless we are a little crazy

But we're never gonna survive unless
We get a little crazy

In a sky full of people
There's only some want to fly now
Isn't that crazy
In a world full of people
There's only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
In a heaven of people
There's only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy
In a world full of people
There's only some want to fly
Isn't that crazy

But we're never gonna survive
Unless we get a little crazy
No we're never gonna survive
Unless we are a little crazy

8. So Long

Vivid images I've had of you
If your imagination only knew
The passion I had in mind,
Words can't explain

Through the night into the waking hours
I feel your silhouette,
I touch your flower
Nothing can take the place,
The place of you
I been lookin' for the means to carry on

So long,
I can still remember nights together
So long, now I can't get over
So long, I recall the vows we sang
Together for so long

The rhythm of your breath beats
On my skin
Anticipation starts to settle in
This night ain't gonna last forever
But I'm gonna make you wish it did,
Now baby,
'Cause tomorrow you'll be gone

So long,
I can still remember nights together
So long, now I can't get over
So long, I recall the vows we sang
Together for so long

Call it what you will but I must disagree
Everything we built
From a mere fantasy
But the moral to this tale is far
From learning

All the promises were just words
In the night
And I made you my religion,
But I missed the light
But the answers still lie
In the wake of tomorrow
Until then I know,
You know it's been so long

9. Body

Babe, if you got the time
I'd like to reward you
With this gift of endowment
And babe, put aside your pride
Your body's what I'm about
And I can't wait to taste it

Mama, don't act so shy
'Cause, I've heard your confessions
Through candles and wine
Now, mama, at this point and time
It ain't your mind I'm thinkin' of
When your sweet ass is smiling

Comin, I'm comin'
I need it, like never before, want your,

Body, I need your, body
Just as the night turns to mornin',
I know I must feed on your
Body, now colour my, body
Give me your version of heaven,
I now surrender to you

Babe, don't waste my time
Now, you've worked up the tower,
Now you must work your way down
Now, babe, if I had a dime
For all the ways I wanna do you,
I'd be the wealthiest man around

Comin', I'm comin', I'm screamin'
Cryin', I'm cryin', I need it,
Like never before, want your

Body, I need your, body
Just as the night turns to mornin',
I know I must feed on your
Body, now colour my, body
Give me your version of heaven,
I now surrender to you

I'm grindin' more ways than one,
I'm playin' down by the river
I'll drown if you come too fast
Is this the right way it's done?
I'm playin' down by the river
Now scream if you want me
To make it last, want your

Body, I need your, body
Just as the night turns to mornin',
I know I must feed on your
Body, now colour my, body
Give me your version of heaven,
I now surrender to you

This groovy direction deserves
What you do, need your
C'mon everybody, grab a body

10. Soul 2 Soul

...once upon a time in a land
Of perfect love
One soul not fortunate enough
To live it how she dreamed
Ups and downs like everyone else,
But this story's kinda special
It just happens to be about someone
I know

She sits and stares
The memories roll by in slow motion
A sign of the times
Reality's as blue as the ocean

Life's dealt her a losin' hand
But love will come in time

From one soul to soul
Don't run away
Cause a change is comin'
From one soul to soul
Don't turn away
Cause a change is comin'
She comes undone
When the cynicals around her
Simply turn their heads
She prays for the day
She'll get to live her dreams
And fantasies that lie ahead

Y no one will understand
A bleedin' heart cryin'

From one soul to soul
Don't run away
Cause a change is comin'
From one soul to soul
Don't turn away
Cause a change is comin'
She comes undone
When the cynicals around her
Simply turn their heads
She prays for the day
She'll get to live her dreams
And fantasies that lie ahead

Like anyone else,
She knows what she wants
Only higher power can save her
From a fall

From one soul to soul
Don't run away
Cause a change is comin'
From one soul to soul
Don't turn away
Cause a change is comin'
She comes undone
When the cynicals around her
Simply turn their heads
She prays for the day
She'll get to live her dreams
And fantasies that lie ahead

From one soul to soul
Don't run away
Cause a change is comin'
From one soul to soul
Don't turn away
Cause a change is comin'
She comes undone
When the cynicals around her
Simply turn their heads
She prays for the day
She'll get to live her dreams
And fantasies that lie ahead

...here's where the story ends
Well at least all we know thus far

11. How Was I to Know

[Japanese Bonus Track]

I've waited for so long
I've waited for this time
The signs can't be wrong
The answers in your eyes
And I never thought I'd spend
Another night alone
So alone, but I turned and you were gone

How was I to know that I would be the only one
How was I to know that I would be the lonely one

Another year gone by
A thousand tears I've cried
This loneliness invades
And sorrow fills my mind
As I pray I'd never spend
Another night alone
So alone, 'cause I just can't go on

How was I to know that I would be the only one
That's fallen, I'm callin' I'm pleadin' on my knees
I been cryin', and I'm dyin'
So won't you let me in

12. Hands Of Time

[Japanese Bonus Track]

I been runnin' around
Since I care to remember
I was born to love, but I can't find it
Sincerely signed, a man who's cryin'
Reduced to tears but I'll be back again
Turnin' back I wonder, how did I survive
If I could turn the hands of time back to the beginning
Innocence invaded by the trials of life
If I could, I would turn the hands of time

My momma didn't tell me
'Bout the morning after
I'm begging for mercy,
But there's nobody listening
No means or cause for satisfaction
My foolish pride will never be gratified

The other night I had a dream
Somethin' 'bout a Valentine,
So-so divine
The sun then filled my eyes
I got a new lease in life
And I'm gonna buy it

Now I sit and wonder by the candlelight
If I could turn the hands of time,
Change it for the better searchin' resolution
For this heart of mine if I could, I would turn the hands of time







TALISMAN LYRICS