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ALL TOO HUMAN LYRICS
"Forever And a Day" (1998)
1. What Do You Call Me Now?
2. Forever and a Day
3. Life Begins Anew
4. An Untitled Masterpiece
5. A Walk Through Iowa Park
6. Souls on a Mortal High
7. Dismal Array
8. The Limits of Man
9. Camel's Revenge
1. What Do You Call Me Now?
Free to question why
to seek the truth
and weed out all the lies
The banter of the innocents
Running through my mind
The vanity and arrogance
echo the voices of absurdity
What do you call the point
between the silence and the sound?
What do you call the angels
turned inside out?
What do you call the dreamers
taken from their dreams?
What do you call me now?
Free to speak your mind
ignore the truth
to see and still be blind
The shattering of innocence
The guilt inside my head
An isolated circumstance
leads to a feeling of uncertainty
Free to see the light
to hear the truth
and know it's just a lie
2. Forever and a Day
Dusk to dawn light fades away
Sunrise brings another day...another day
Looking for the truth within myself
Searching to find somebody else
I know life can seem so long
When you're alone...but carry on
The only fear is to deny
the part of you that wants to try
Release your fear send out a cry
Reach out to life, let your heart fly
Raise your heart up to the skies
Feel the light rest on your eyes
I feel the warmth burn in my soul
I hear the whispers calling out my name
I feel the passion burn inside
I cannot hide, I can't put out the flame
The mirror burns straight through my soul
Reflections sometimes seem so cold
I feel the warmth burn in my soul
I hear the whispers calling out my name
I feel the passion burn inside
I cannot hide, I can't put out the flame...anymore
3. Life Begins Anew
Your emptiness is hollow
Your tears have turned to salt
You sit about in shallow waters
Thinking it's your fault
(it's not your fault...it's all your fault)
You pull your self together
You love to fall apart
You sorrow is a cliche
Your sincerity an art
Day into night - a million faces
Night into day - a million graces
Constant conforming
Running the races
Wasting your life away
You've mastered your disparity
Beyond the point of clarity
and no one knows just what to see
who you are or want to be
...who you are or want to be
...what you are or want to see
You're a shadow of yourself
Turn out the light
Turn off the light
Turn on your life
You know it matters what you do
Tomorrow life begins anew
4. An Untitled Masterpiece
Old man, old heart
Always looking for the time to start
Living his dreams
Too busy with his day to day
to let his dreams get in the way
or so it seems
Now he's at the end of his life
and he can't find
the dreams to bind him
to a memory
Looking back the old man feels the pain
He cries out in vain
"Where is my legacy?"
The only immortality
is found within the memories
of those who survive you
Is the fate of man etched in stone?
Can this man find resurrection?
Will he concede in resignation?
A life he did not live, a dream fades to black
Is it too late for this man to fight back?
To live in dreams long forgotten
to find his end in life, from dreams always ignored
Is it too late to find a destiny?
The man cries out in vain:
"Someone remember me!"
5. A Walk Through Iowa Park
6. Souls on a Mortal High
The hills come alive in the Autumn mist
Ghostly in their grandeur
As the souls of the wood
God has kissed
Sing for the coming day
Dawn-lit children wake up
from their silent sleep
Dawn-lit children take up
all their hearts can keep
Dawn-lit children
make your dreams alive
Send your spirits free
The weary eyes of the children blink
and gaze at the waking flowers
As the sunlight climbs above the brink
of the lazy world below
Dawn-lit children play games
well beneath the sky
Dawn-lit children laughing
as the world goes by
Dawn-lit children
do you realize
You're Souls On A Mortal High
Do you remember when
the streets were lined with gold?
Do you remember how
the stories would unfold?
Songs of old
Echoes ring out through the evening sky
and shine across the waters<
back
The stillness whispers in your ears at night
to bring the children home
Dawn-lit children gaze up
watch the clouds go by
Dawn-lit children raise up
to the open sky
Dawn-lit children
can you realize
You're Souls On A Mortal High
Do you see the tracks in the snow
soon become one
then slowly fade away
Do you feel peace at night
the stars in the heavens
grant you a brand new life
...a new life
...a new life
7. Dismal Array
8. The Limits of Man
I stand alone to fall between
Who I'll become and who I've been
As the future draws me nearer
I see the past fade in the mirror
It seems to me a compromise
I can't believe what I've see through these eyes
Transcending thoughts set me apart
from the ending of a brand new start
When will I learn to leave alone
the soul that feeds the flesh and bone
Forgotten lies that follow me
chain me to the enemy
The essence of all that is true
holds the silence deep inside of you
If you feel it then you'll understand
there really are no limits of man
I must temper my decisions
with the passion of my visions
The secrets of my destiny
are the fires inside of me
I'll set them free to claim the day As the limits of man...fade away
9. Camel's Revenge
Round the clock, it never stops
Time becomes an enemy within
My stomach burns, I feel it turn
Over and over again
Run through the street, my silent feet
Crash through the night but no one hears
People in need, why do we feed
the hand that bites the hand that feeds?
And I can feel
the emptiness build up inside of me
My heart is racing
they grow near
The chase is on, the damage done
Why must I be the only one?
For others lies, I pay the price
But no one hears the martyr's cries!
This same old face, a different place
for silent fools, I run the race of time
The enmity I bring now
the unfocused truth
I close my eyes and visualize
the enemy is you
You, sent me here
and all these fears
cannot seem to calm me now
So here I stand
at the edge of this desert
and endless sea of shifting sand
Why must light and dark
wage war on this battlefield?
back
O'er this bitter soul inside this hollow man
And I can feel
the silent emptiness of pride in me
this endless facing
of my fears
I'm just a man, this empty man
My enemy comes from within
My destiny, this has to be
A future no one else can see
With what I've learned, my life is turned
With every step, the surface burns away
I cannot run any longer
There is nothing left to run to
Everyone I have ever loved, I have destroyed
I must indulge my final breath
How can I show myself now?
The world will see it's really me
How can I wash this blood from my fingers?
Everyone can see through me
The chase is on again
I hope these pointless lies that they devise
will soon come to an end
I'm so alone again
a silent soldier searching for a cause
praying for salvation
waiting for...
waiting...waiting...waiting...
Have they forgotten me?
...I am forgiven now.
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