LUMINOUS ILLUSION
I THOUGHT I CAUGHT YOUR ILLUSIN IN SMOLDER OF FIRE
I WENT TO REACH FOR IT, ONLY TO YELL AT THE BURN MARKS
AND CURSE MY OWN DESIRE
IF ONLY I COULD LET THE FIRE PLAY OUT ITS DANCE
THEN I WOULDN'T BE HERE WITH NOTHING
AND I WOULDN'T LIVE ON CHANCE
REACH BETWEEN THE LIGHT OF YOUR ILLUSION
YOUR FALSE PRETENSE OH I DISMISS
OH SEE THE COLORS OF THE LIGHT DANCE
SO LUMINOUS IS THE ILLUSION
THE AFTER GLOW IS BURNING STEADY AND SLOW
GIVING ME THE WARMTH THAT I NEED
STANDING OVER THE DANGER BELOW
ARE YOU TORN BY WHAT YOU SHOULD DO?
ARE YOU RUNNING FROM WHAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD RUN TOWARDS?
(CHORUS) REACH BETWEEN THE LIGHT......
(BREAK)
(DID YOU HEAR?, DID YOU HEAR?, DID YOU HEAR?)
DID YOU HEAR A FAINT CRY FROM BEHIND YOUR DREAMS
HOLDING WITHIN ALL YOUR ILLUSIONS AND SCHEMES
DO YOU STILL HOLD THE VISION IN YOUR STARE?
OR WAS IT EVER THERE?
REACH BETWEEN THE LIGHT OF YOU ILLUSION
YOUR FALSE PRETENSE OH I DISMISS
OOH, OOOH
I SEE YOUR ILLUSION AGAIN
THE ANSWERS OF YOU I COULDN'T FIND
IT PASSES AS DISBELIEF, LIKE A MOCKERY LAID IN A RHYME
I WAS LEFT WITH SUCH A BAD CHOICE
YOU BROKE MANY PROMISES
AND I REACH YOU WITH MY VOICE AND I REACH YOU WITH MY VOICE
(GUITAR SOLO)
DID YOU HEAR A FAINT CRY FROM BEHIND YOUR DREAMS?
HOLDING WITHIN ALL YOUR ILLUSION AND SCHEMES
DO YOU STILL HOLD THE VISION IN YOUR STARE?
OR WAS IT EVER THERE?
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ALL THAT I SAID
THESE CERTAIN THOUGHTS ARREST MY TIME
OCILATING THROUGH MY MIND
DETERMINATION MOTIVATES YOU
IS IT THEY THAT TALK BUT CAN NOT DO
IT WAS ME YOU FORGOT TO BELIVE
I NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT I NEED
AND NOW YOU SAY I'VE AIMED TO HIGH
YOUR WORDS BECOME A LIE
(CHORUS)
AND ALL THAT I KNOW HOW TO BE
IS STANDING RIGHT BEFORE YOU NOW
SOMETIMES ITS TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
THE CLOUDS ALL BREAK
YOUR SHAWDOW WON'T BE OVER ME NOW
I AM ALL THAT I SAID I WOULD BE
STANDING RIGHT BEFORE YOU NOW
SOMETIMES ITS TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
YOUR LACK OF SUPPORT ONLY BREEDS
WITH ALL YOUR NEGITIVITY
DETERMINATION MOTIVATES ME
TO PROVE THE SUCESS YOU REFUSED TO SEE
IT WAS ME YOU TRIED TO HOLD DOWN
I TOOK CONTROL AND TURNED IT AROUND
AND WHEN YOU SAID ITS A WASTE DON'T TRY
YOUR WORDS ARE STILL A LIE
(CHORUS REPEAT)
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YOUR PAINTED SKY
ONLY ONE HOUR TO GIVE YOU ON SUNDAY
BUT THE HOUR GOES BY AND THE DAY JUST DRIFTS AWAY,
HOW MANY DAYS WILL FADE AND WHY
I LOOK UP AT THE END OF THE DAY
AS YOU REMIND ME IN YOUR PAINTED SKY
IT'S EASIER TO GO WITH A FEELLING OF ANGER
THEN TO GIVE A KIND GESTURE
OR A SMILE IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER
(CHORUS)
I KNOW I NEED TO GIVE MORE TIME
CAUSE I MISS YOU IN OUR LIFE
PAINT ME YOUR BRILLENT LIGHT
HELP ME LEARN TO FIND
YOU REMIND ME IN YOUR PAINTED SKY...
IN THE WORLD OUR GUARD IS UP
WITHOUT YOU WE ARE TOO ALONE
WE ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH
WHEN WE WANDER FAR FROM YOUR HOME
ONLY ONE HOUR TO GIVE ON SUNDAY
BUT THE HOUR GOES BY AND THE DAY DRIFTS AWAY
I WON'T THIS DAY GO BY
I LOOKED UP AT THE END OF THE DAY
YOU REMINDED ME IN YOUR PAINTED SKY
(REPEAT CHORUS, FADE)
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SHORE LINE
IT'S SO EVER CHANGING
TIME AND MOVEMENT KEEP REARRANGING IT
OUR LIFE IS SHIFTING THROUGH CURRENTS
OF A EVER CHANGING SHORELINE
CAPTURE & SAVOR THIS MOMENT
OF WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW
FOR IT'LL NEVER BE THE SAME
IT KEEPS TRUE TO CHANGE
(CHORUS)
TIME IS STOLEN ALONG THE SHORELINE
LIKE MY SOUL PULLED FROM ME
AS IT SINGS OUT ITS RESTLESS RHYME
THE TRAIL OF THE SHORELINE
THE SEA THROW ITS SELF TO THE SHORE
I WALK ALONG AN EVER CHANGING EDGE
LEAVING BEHIND THE PRINTS OF WHO I AM
IN THE GRAINS OF SAND
WHILE THE RHYTHM AND WAVES CRASH
WITHIN MY HEAD UPON DEMAND
(REPEAT CHORUS)
POUNDERING OVER A NEW PLAN
I QUICKEN MY PACE ALONG THE SHORELINE
SHARP ROCKS LAY HIDDEN BENEATH THE SAND
AND THE CALENDAR OF DAYS IT LEAVES BEHIND IN ENDLESS SAND
MANY MILES OF SECLUDED LAND
STANDING STILL LIKE A SHRINE
(REPEAT CHORUS)
THE CALENDAR OF DAYS IT LEAVES BEHIND
IN ENDLESS SAND
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Last Song In August
A time out of Place
The right moment passed by
All the energy it took...
All the time set aside never reaching its goal
Disappear from our sight
Too soon how it died
Chorus: I sit back from the shadows
And I watch your passion and fury first
I remember the sounds I heard
It was the Last Song in August
Somewhere in my dreamless sleep
It wraps its memory around my mind
The music of that time
I can still see the stage
Years ago, and now we're left with a song on a page
(Everything has Changed)
Chorus: I sit back from the Shadows
And I watch you passion unrehearsed
I remember the sounds I heard
It was the last song in August
Oooh, Oh, ooooh.......(keyboard solo)
Repeat Chorus: (key Change)
Oooooh, Ahh, Ahh, Oooooh, Ahh, Ahh, Ooooh, Ahh, Ahh
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Gone To Stay
As the ship appeared on the shore
We sailed away
Never gonna see anymore
We're gone to stay
Gone to stay far far from here
Will be happy one day
On the shores of an island so blue
The sun high in the sky
Excitement rushes through your veins
So far from all you knew
On your way a wash in sea
Gone to Stay
Chorus: A Star shines the only way
To guide me through this night
The mirrors a pool I float in
The sun is my light
(Guitar Solo)
Bridge: And With a gust of wind, the sea takes flight.......
Stanza: Oh black waters cold when the night is dark
Can't blame it all on the moon
Waves cash aboard my ship, no peace can I find
And I beg for forgivness and bread I pray
Gone To Stay..............
(Solo)
(Repeat Chorus)
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Reoccuring Wind
Reoccurring, while you were'nt looking
Caught by surpise
Dust Filled and squitting eyes
Trying to see
Leaving me blind, where haveI been
Reoccurring like the wind
Unsettle my life, once agin to challenge the fight
Invisable to me, How I tried but I could'nt see
Chill wind it darkened the sky........
Now the sky is painted grey behind the the blue
I was looking for you
And what you left behind ....
Reoccuring like the wind
Once again to challenge the Fight
(Chorus) Seems my Life has carried me over hurdles a ¼nd boundries
(Reoccuring like the wind)
Caught a glimps along the way of the faces I knew and yesterday
(Oh, I can't give in)
Does not wait for an invitation
(Reoccurring like the wind)
Turns the pages of my life
I'm hearing voices in the wind and it all comes rushing back to me
(Guitar Solo)
From this they say we'll grow, you gotta run the race to know
Reoccurring like the wind..
So I'm picking up the pieces, different faces of you
And what you left behind the door
Dust filled and squitting eyes, trying to see
Leaving me blind, where have I been
(Chorus Repeat)
It all comes rushing back to me.......
(Guitar Solo)
Rushing back to me, Rushing back to me
It all comes rushing back to me
Caught by surpise, Dust filled my eyes, Trying to see, Where may I be
Unsettle my life, painted all blue.......
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Glow From A Peridot
(Last Song In August Part 11)
I have followed the narrow path to the trail that leads to you
I remember us there in world time wants to take away
Forcing my thoughts to get lost in the routine of my day
I try to recall that world that seem so foreign and so far away
In the heat of the last summer month
From the time that I was born
The changes that we face, the things we now know
All the lesson's from a long time ago
Making us ache for a world that we want to know
And a chance to learn and feeling that we've grown
Chorus: Illuminating path that leads the way
Like a glow from a Peridot
In the price that you pay for gambling in LA
Hold or Pass, Stop or Go
I could leave but I just don't know
Season's change and slip on past
Years fall by like a late summer day
Then you realize it's too late
Years line your face as you wear ™a frown
Too caught up in looking ahead
But you never even looked around
(Repeat Chorus)
All the while as you roll the dice
Uncertain is tommorrow
And the time we have is so little
You could not be replaced now who's left to blame
Concerned with reaching your destination
Bluffing just enough to keep you in the game
(Repeat Chorus w/adlib)
(hold or pass, stop or go x2) Oh, I got the call today
I guess it's all in the price you pay for gambling in LA
There's always a scrifice of fortune and time when you roll the dice
You never know unless you try and see....
Poured out my pockets along with my soul
Paid the Price at the Hollywood Toll
Well I poured out my pockets along with my soul
Paid the price at Hollywood Toll
(Hold....or Pass.... Stop or Go......X4)
Oh, I guess that's just the price you pay for gambling in LA
Oh just the price you pay for gambling in LA
Ooooh, Oooh....I got the call today.....
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Eyes On The Prize
Lyrics by A. Shea (c) 1999
All rights reserved
Wake up get out of bed
A new day there's life to mend
Sweet desert wind like the day I was born
Road on a bird to a distant shore
Swept away
First winter's snow
Hot August horizon
The child plays while the old grow lonely
Oh there're so alone
Take back the flowers
Take back the rain, sing a song of yesterday
Take my pain
As you kiss the day away
Seems there's always something more to say
Awake at night you lay
Try to find the strength to p ¿ray
I won't trade my soul away
And you know there comes a day, and you know there comes a day
Won't you testify for me
Tell them all the things that you know
Each one has a day when they'll meet face to face
Chorus: Keep your eyes on the prize
A different (better) point of view
Keep your eyes on the prize
Your dreams all come true
Keep you eyes on the prize
Different (better) point of view
Musical Break:
Won't you testify for me........Tell them all the things that you know... Each one has a day when they'll meet face to face
Repeat Chorus:
Heard some talk about a lake of fire
Friction between God and you
Wages of sin, lust desire
Tug a war you feel it too
In a word it's all so clear
It's your life but you can't steer
Life's a vapor in a child's first breath
Seek some truth before your death
(Repeat over Chorus)
Heard some talk about a lake of fire
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CLEAR DECEPTION
We have no sign
Yet we wait for place & time
Promises that linger
Move through a world so unkind
Wishful thinking had me lost
In silence for so very long
When all is said and done
Never say that we've been wrong
Caught between the lies and you
A clear deception all too soon
You find yourself in thought again
You're desperation's only friend
The moments we filled
With all of our emotions
Like a fragment of a dream
Lost in its connection
Wishful thinking had its cost
Sacrifice so very long
When all is said and done
Never say that we've been wrong
Caught between the lies and you
A clear deception all too soon
You find yourself in thought again
You're desperation's only friend
(Guitar Solo)
Caught between the lies and you
A clear deception all too soon
You find yourself in thought again
You're desperation's only friend
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© 1999-2000 Luminous
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