Scream And Whisper lyrics

Welcome back to earth my fine young lucky southern son
How was your trip to outer-space it sure did look like fun
You seem somewhat puzzled like you just can't readjust
You're covered in the battle scars and pitted up with rust

And your mom and dad have missed you and I'm sure your friends agree
There's no substitute for solitude and anonymity

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I'm just coming down from this cloud ahead

After the big parade, when all the limelight fades
I'll be the one to kiss your eyes
The roar fades in the air like hope from a lover's prayer
The light from my heart begins to rise

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And they said I couldn't love you and that it would never last
He's just a crazy boy just look at his past
And they said I couldn't love you but that was just a lie
I couldn't love you more if I tried

The smile on your face could sacrifice salvation
As the winter sunshine fades to bring you down
A fumble in the dark, it's a journey on the night train
A friendship never grows to bring you down

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Everybody's waiting for God to fall out of the skies
Is it all in the stars tonight
Is it all in your mind
That day will never come
A sentimental dream, my feelings based on instinct

Hey Tink it's me Peter, I know it's been a long, long time
I hope you and the lost boys are doing just as fine
As that time we showed that Captain Hook and Smee a thing or two
I think you know why I'm rhyming and I hope that you're not blue

You see I'll keep you in my heart and you'll always be my friend
But I can't come back to Neverland again

When footsteps from that Sunday march faded out into the dark
The melody blows in to ease the pain
Two thousand years and we're still here fighting over the same old fear
The muddy steps of hate can't stand this rain

I'll stand up on this stage as if it was my altar
I'll face down all the rage and no, I will not falter
Say I'm good enough to play but not good enough to stay
In your heart

The air that you breathe it must be poisoned
And you're dressed up in your best disguise
And I don't want to hear what you have to say
It's there in your eyes when you look away
These beautiful words are turning into lies

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How can you say that to me

The light that still shines is just an illusion
It's just a memory from a burned out star
Its promise has come from so far away

When you feel locked in and you feel left out
And you don't know if your face fits in the crowd
When you've made mistakes and your conscience shakes
And you don't know what belief is all about

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A paper moon that turns to gray
Will save the rain from yesterday
The summer snow that melts away
Will save the rain

When you've hoped for more and you're left unsure

Say anything, save everything
If we say nothing this love will die
Give me just one word, you can scream or whisper
If you want to stay with me, tell me why
Say anything

It's not the words aren't there but they'd only fail my emotions
Just want to feel this way without chaining you down to some old cliché
You want water in my hands and we stand waist deep in the ocean

We keep our love in a plain brown box
We keep it tied with a simple lock
We hold it close 'cause it's all we got
We think it's ordinary but it's not

In a world that's starting to fade
A little love could pave the way
Don't keep it tied with the simple lock
You think it's ordinary but it's not

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Maybe this life is just about love and tenderness
If all we are are shooting stars

It's taken all this time to work you out
And if I wasn't sure before now I'm in no doubt
You're running out of things to say and I can see it in your face
You're going to throw it all away

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Makes no difference what you say cause you can't hide it
Cause every moment slips away there's no denying
That I know, yes I know
You're going to throw it all away

Yes all the vampires know my name
But they don't treat me quite the same
I've pulled the leather from my eyes
I've put all the stars back in your skies

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I'm turning this life around
I broke all the chains that used to tie me down
I'm turning this life around before it's over

Said goodbye to ego and the shame
There's no use in hiding in that fame
I've pulled the leather from my eyes

Sometimes I wish there were two of me
One to stay at home, the other runs free
One man to hold you, the other's long gone
Chasing the girls, laughing til dawn

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I'm just wild at heart
This battle is raging inside
This double fantasy tears me apart
I'm wild at heart
I'm wild at heart

I can't fill this hole in my life
The bottom is endlessly deep

Well I packed all of my things into this blanket
To call this year to earn coyotes fill
Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath
And took my first steps into this corridor of death
If Iïm lucky I will make it to a drain
With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain
Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain