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1. Prelude

2. River of Life

3. Let You Be

4. Antihero

5. Generation Gap

6. Nowhere

7. Religiosity

8. Her Love Waits

9. Someone

10. Mustard Seed

11. I Long For It All

River of Life

Hey where are you now
Need your love some how
Can you hear me call
Hear me at all

I've sheltered in lies
Severed sacred ties
And what has become
Of your will be done

You see me writhe in pain
All affection I feign
It's driving me down
Into the barren ground

And day after day
What I have is taken away
And night after night
I call on Jesus Christ

I wait for you - Fate waits for me too All I can do - is call on you

I see the river flow
Through my heart and through my soul
I won't let go
To give you control

Call on me here
Call on me now
Call on me here

In the silence I hear
A voice so gentle so near
In the silence I hear ...

The work has been done
Salvation has come
The price has been paid
Cornerstone has been laid

Reign down on me
I long to be free
Reign down on me

I see the river flow
Through my heart
And through my soul
I won't let go
To give you control

M.Mancév: vocals, guitar (first solo) bass
D.Carr: guitar (second solo)
E.Chess: drums
Peta Taylor: backing vocals

Let You Be

You can talk all you want
I'm not repelled by what you say
Spill your words into my ears
Come up close it's hard to hear you

Your thoughts are driving you insane
Drip feed Prozak to you brain
Come on tell me everything
Loose the chains that keep it in

What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill you
What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill you

There is no meaning in despair
It leaves you tender, leaves you bare
It'll give you scars for souvenirs
Leave you crippled year to year

What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill you
What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill

No solution , no solution
No absolution, absolution

No solution in your silence
No absolution in your pain
Find the faith you once owned
The seeds are there - let them grow
Find the faith you once owned
The seeds are there - let them grow

What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill you
What I say to you
It's never gonna leave you
This disease is gonna kill you

You can talk all you want
You can talk all you want

M.Mancév: vocals, backing vocals, guitar
D.Carr: backing vocals, lead guitar, bass, Rhodes Piano
E.Chess: drums

Antihero

She stopped to tell me
She don't like my attitude
Says I lost my bearings,
Got no spiritual latitude

Says she knows why
I've been feeling grey
Says she knows why
God - made - me - this way

This is the hardest thing I've ever had to say
So don't dismiss it in your nonchalant way
I face my demons every day
And though I pray they never ever go away

So you think you suffer like a hero
Your love you think is so superior
I want to say - I don't think you're so great
Your loving God, your loving God came too late

I have no brothers, no sisters to call me
No companion by my side
All my friends, they're not really mine
Leftovers from another place and time

So you think you suffer like a hero
Your love you think is so superior
I want to say - I don't think you're so great
Your loving God, your loving God came too late

I have a path set out before me
Am I the chosen, or the one without a choice
Christ's love is shrouded in allegory and mystery
And sometimes... sometimes
I'm not as lucid as I should be

So you think you suffer like a hero
Your love you think is so superior
I want to say - I don't think you're so great
Your loving God, your loving God came too late

M.Mancév: vocals, electric & acoustic guitar
D.Carr: bass, lead guitar
E.Chess: drums

Generation Gap

I wish to argue with a dead man
Lift his head from the sand
I want to stare into the hollows
That were once his eyes
Maybe now he will listen
Listen with intent
To my opinions
And thoughts inside my head

Help me lift his head
Help me raise the dead

Sit him down in his favourite chair,
Bring him his slippers and gown
I will light the fire bright
To keep us warm while we talk
Maybe now he will listen
Listen with intent
To my opinions
And thoughts inside my head

He never ever listened to me
Never heard a word I said
He never ever listened to me
Never heard a word

Father tell me a bedtime story
The story of a prodigal son
Father tries to try to warn me
But little does he know
That his son is the son in the story
This truth is too hard to bear
Maybe now he will listen
Listen with intent
To my opinions
And thoughts inside my head

He never ever listened to me
Never heard a word I said
He never ever listened to me
Never heard a word

M.Mancév: vocals, backing vocals, acoustic 6-string,, electric guitar, bass
D.Carr: acoustic 12-string
E.Chess: drums

Religiosity

Religiosity
Is drying in the wind
Doctrines come doctrines go
Leaves you here with nothing

Are you waiting for your God ..ot
Or reading, Being, Nothing .. ness
Doctrines come doctrines go
Where I stand noone knows

You're so austere in your ways
You make me want to run your race
You're so austere in your ways
You make me want to run
The other way

And I won't chant, I won't chant
I won't chant anymore

Nurture my poor ego
You always did 'til now
Why do doctors come?
Why do doctors go?
Leave me mind my own

Promote me in your eyes
Devote me to your lies
I'll trade you wisdom
Trade you eternity
For a spoonful of tranquillity

Let the doctrines come
Let the doctrines go
We'll be oblivious to it all

And I won't chant, I won't chant
I won't chant anymore

M.Mancév: vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, bass
D.Carr: electric guitar
E.Chess: drums

Nowhere

What would I give you
If I live to,If you live too,
See it all come true

What would it take to
Make you give in too,
Make you give into
What you know is true

Your thoughts are shallow
Words are hollow
You're getting nowhere

So I missed my chance to follow
Chance to wallow in despair
It's no secret - noone speaks it
We all keep it to ourselves

When love is shallow
Life is hollow
We're getting nowhere

You look old
Frail and cold
Don't you wish you were told
to never, to never leave the fold

Nowhere
Getting me nowhere
Getting me nowhere
I'm getting nowhere

M.Mancév: vocals, guitar (second solo)
D.Carr: guitar (first solo), bass
E.Chess: drums
Tim Nelson: double bass

Her Love Waits

How can I ask you what you're thinking
When I've caused you so much pain
How can I ask you where you're going
When you know where I have been

I left you alone with all your fears
To kindle a flame that'd lost its glow
And while my mind was wandering, warring
You watched me sink in my black soul

But her love waits ...

In hotel rooms I raped, defiled
All that was sacred in my life
Acids confused me, razors cut me
I couldn't give you a reason to live

I lay alone with dying dreams
I thought no blood no cross can save me now

But her love waits ...

And when I was fallen
Bruised and swollen
I heard a cry from the satellite
Yeah, when I was swollen
Bruised and fallen
I heard her cry on the satellite

Saying, her love waits
Her love waits
For a new dawn to break

M.Mancév: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Someone

Someone's reading over my shoulder
I can smell a sweet angel's breath
Someone's moving in a little closer
I can hear her light-footed steps

And all the time I thought I was talking to myself
She was standing there
And heard every word I said

Take me, I've been waiting patiently
For I see, open arms - eternity
They call me ever so tenderly
They call me home

Someone's crying on my shoulder
I can see a rainbow in her tears
Someone show me how
To reach her, I can't bear
To see this angel weep

And all this time I was
Thinking of myself
She was standing there and thought that I didn't care

Take me, I've been waiting patiently
For I see, open arms eternity
They call me ever so tenderly
They call me home

Someone's watching over my shoulder
I can feel an angel's presence near

M.Mancév: vocals, backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass
D.Carr: acoustic guitar, keyboards
E.Chess: drums

Mustard Seed

I don't believe that it's all changed
I don't believe that's true
And looking at you I still remain
Believing we're just the same
Believing that nothing's changed

Nothing I say will make things right
All I can do is try
I hurt the one I loved the most
Give me another try...
Girl, give me another try

What can I say to change your mind
I've got nothing left to hide

Memories of a distant place
A picture folded in two
Blowing out candles in the nude
I wish I'd stayed for good
Girl, I wish I'd stayed for good

Now that I've heard your distant cries
I will be strong this time
No more attempts to justify
I made the choice to die

Now I'm happy to be living
And use what I've been given, free

Look at the sky it's full of pain
You're wondering why you came
It's better to close your eyes and believe
I'll be your mustard seed
Girl, I'll be your mustard seed

I caught you staring at the sun
Wondering what's to come
It's better to close your eyes and believe
I'll be your mustard seed
Girl, I'll be your mustard seed

Inspiration calling
Seven spirits blowing, through

M.Mancév: vocals, guitar, bass
D.Carr: guitar
E.Chess: drums

I Long For It All

Isn't it strange, how little you and I have changed
It's hard to believe that all this time has passed us by
I remember the time when I let you down my Lord
You let me feel the pain that was to make it real

You show me your thoughts, and words wither in my throat
Time and again, I always seem to let you down

I know there's so much more than blood and bone
And I long, long for it all

I remember the time you turned the water into wine
I was the one who said I do not know you three times
I remember the time I made a crown of thorns for you
You were the one who said they know not what they do

I know there's so much more than blood and bone
And I long, long for it all

Let me tell you what I want to tell the world to do

M.Mancév: vocals
D.Carr: bass, lead guitar
E.Chess: drums