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HOURGLASS LYRICS
"The Journey Into" (2002)
1. Pawn
2. Vantage Point
3. Plains Of Remembrance
4. The Circle Breaks
5. Not My Time
6. The Journey Into
1. Pawn
You treat me like a pawn
I refuse to be the king
the more that we believe is right
the more we fail to see
the queen is just a con
your move has lost its sting
see through the squares of both our lives
at what we're meant to be
Getting through to you
is like spitting into the wind
you always come back in my face
been telling me so long
you play the game to win
your losses will be your disgrace
I've been trying to play your game for years
it's brought me nothing but pain and tears
and even though I can't pretend
I'll be around to play again
it shouldn't be you versus me
You treat me much too kind
you treat me much too cruel
I know your style and patient smile
with you there are no rules
with silent words you speak
we search out our next move
your looks can kill, my thoughts you steal
there's nothing left to prove
Looking straight through you
I'll face the wind again
I can hear it calling my name
I glance across the board
there's nothing to defend
distance made you lose your aim
I've been trying to play your game for years
it's brought me nothing but pain and tears
and even though I can't pretend
I'll be around to play again
why should it be you versus me?
2. Vantage Point
Searching for the dreams of my life
I don't know if I'll find them again
looking for the doorway of time
I don't know if I'll see it again
Finding all the meaning in life
can't keep asking my will not to bend
seeing it's not a matter of time
can't keep asking the question of when
In the light of the dawn's embrace
I arrive in this time and place
I've searched for now, I've searched for then
it's all been lost and found again
From this vantage point I see
the world spread out in front of me
all that I have searched to find
has been revealed to keep in mind
and from this vantage point I see
the trials of tomorrow confronting me
all that's left for me to find
will be revealed and kept in mind
Moving through an ocean of fire
the ship I sail is turning to ash
standing atop a mountain of sand
searching for heaven in a desolate land
Believing in the choices I've made
never asking the question of why
receiving all that's coming my way
the worst I can do is to try
Welcome to the time of your life
it's been ticking away from the start
and now the highest peak is reached
the best you could do was to play your part
When all is said and done
as you walk into the setting sun
remember how the wheels have turned
and keep in mind all that you've learned
3. Plains Of Remembrance
i. ONTO THE PLAINS
My heart is bleeding
through the water from my eyes
I step onto the plains
away from bleakness
and starless city skies
will the dust enter my veins?
Memories come fading back
as the darkness casts his shadow
I feel something in the air
chances fading quickly
this time I thought you might know
I'm bleeding and just don't care
Can I remember and stay
hope I remember today
it's not easy
can I surrender the day
forget what you say
can you help me at all?
The mountains are fading
as I start to run
sunshine is changing
and life is no fun
seconds are fading
as quick as the sun
moonlight is changing
and I've come undone
ii. CHANGE BEGINNING
We tried to fabricate our dreams
although they're fading away
can't start to make a change
we'll try again some other day
open eyes and broken homes
won't lead us through this pain
we've come so far without a chance
let's press on through the pouring rain
head up, heart down
we walk across the broken ground
of the plains
What's done is done
better keep on moving
before our time has come
no place to run
with change beginning
to shape what we become
Time is fleeting as we're meeting
halfway through the plains
pressures beating while you're cheating
one more day from death
Vision, pretender
of dreams and life reborn
system, defender
your chance at change unworn
I feel change beginning
Never fear the end is near
for you it's been too long
all those years of bleeding tears
have left you so alone
Waken, remember
all that you have learned
shaken, surrender
to the trust that you have earned
Head up, heart down
we walk across the broken ground
of the plains
What's done is done
better keep on moving
before our time has come
no place to run
with change beginning
to shape what we become
iii. FOR YOU
Reaching out for something
as I cross the running water
calling out for that someone
I don't know who until I've found her
Breaking up the picture
that I'm seeing in the distance
my life's becoming clearer
with time and your persistence
The mountains are fading
as I start to run
sunshine is changing
and life is no fun
seconds are fading
as quick as the sun
moonlight is changing
and I've come undone for you
4. The Circle Breaks
A man walks down a beaten path
his hands are worn and cracked
haunted by the images of his past
there's nothing left but to look back
Standing incomplete and alone
her leaves will fall no more
with all the things that she's been shown
if only she had known before
As the circle breaks the trend
good things must always end
you will see that life lives for you
and that you can transcend
when you take the things you've found
and stop to look around
you will see it's not the end
when the circle breaks the trend
A soft wind blows and with it brings
the scenes of days long past
when leaves were green and branches strong
those days went by so fast
As he walks a path leads to
an old friend he once knew
in this holy place he used to play
to wash all pain and fear away
As the circle breaks the trend
good things must always end
you will see that life lives for you
and that you can transcend
when you take the things you've found
and stop to look around
you will see it's not the end
when the circle breaks the trend
He stops to rest and catch his breath
a leaf descends onto the ground
he then looks up, he's taken back
left in awe by what he's found
A better thing they could not find
as night proclaims the end of day
as he leaves this world behind
he's finally found the place he'll stay
As the circle breaks your trend
good things must always end
you will see that life lives for you
and that you can transcend
when you take the things you've found
and stop to look around
you will see it's not the end
when the circle breaks your trend
5. Not My Time
His wings have been clipped
and yet he can fly
he's too old to try
and too young to die
He's lost in fear's path
and he's far from home
he's found in times past
and he's all alone
Now the price it seals his fate
now his mind reels too late
in a moment his life has changed
all is lost if time can't wait
Don't hold me down
don't break my mind
don't shut the door
I've still got time
don't lock me out
don't cut my line
don't take me now
it's not my time
The pain that he feels
is born in his mind
the hand that he deals
is dealt to the blind
He'll be spent inside
when his time is done
his last thought is gone
his last breath is drawn
Now his mind is torn in two
and there's nothing he can do
all his dreams have bled and died
his tears have long been cried
CHORUS
Now the price it seals his fate
now his mind can't think straight
in a moment his life has changed
there he stands at heaven's gate
CHORUS
6. The Journey Into
i. THE BARRIER FALLS
For a moment, touch the sky
for a moment, you can fly
if sunlight will fall today
for a moment, who am I
for a moment, for a try
as the barrier falls today
All too soon, what am I
all too soon, you and I
fly to the end of time
all too soon, I'm falling fast
all too soon, a fading past
is gone with no reason or rhyme
ii. RECKLESSNESS
Spending life so helpless
my world has fallen apart
spending life so friendless
I'm praying for one new start
Taking on the challenges
that I'm faced with everyday
facing all the differences
so things will change someday
I'm not ready for this
how could I be ready for this?
I need to find another way
to hold on for one more day
It's deliverance that I need
with no warnings left to heed
as I rise above the restlessness
I find a sense of carelessness
a sense of loss, a sense of life
a pretense of my recklessness
Trying to wait patiently
for things that carry weight
a greater hope of faithfulness
is hope I can't create
Looking for the solution
or an answer from the sky
things will start to fall in place
when I live outside the lie
Do you hear the thunder
as the clouds prepare
for somber rain?
Do you ever wonder
why life is strange
and full of pain?
It's deliverance that I need
with no warnings left to heed
as I rise above the restlessness
I find a sense of carelessness
a sense of loss, a sense of life
a pretense of my recklessness
iii. THE ROAD DOWN
In the dark I close my eyes
there's an image of you deep inside
and every day that passes by
part of me is gone with the tide
My thoughts reflect too far
as I wonder where you are
this fear has found a home
and lies deep within the bone
On a clear and distant night
with no heat from summer light
I begin to see the end
in the wake of fate's new trend
I have no way to clear my sight
I have no sense of wrong or right
as I force my will to go
a direction no map can show
And as I find a way
down the wandering road
I feel a sense of sadness
I steal a sense of hope
I have what's in my mind
what I need is what I can find
on this road that leads me down
while my head spins 'round and 'round
iv. WHERE I STAND IN THE LIGHT
Now the storm, the storm is raging
and I feel it inside tonight
and since the norm is always changing
I can't find where I stand in the light
All the lack of care I've shown
has left me lost without a home
I'm playing roles not meant for me
I'm making goals not meant to be
For a moment what would I give
to see the day end this night
all too soon I'm forced to live
with no dawn in my sight
Where do I stand
can't someone tell me?
I've been searching
searching all this time
it's not what I planned
but something tells me
I've been waiting too long for a sign
What I feel I've had to steal
what I've got is all that's real
what I've got I've had to steal
what I feel is all that's real
Now the storm, the storm is raging
and I feel it inside tonight
and since the norm is always changing
I can't find where I stand in the light
And the storm is raging on
The answers I'm seeking
are on the horizon
all questions are fleeting
in the storm that's raging on
the storm that is raging
is where I walk into the light
v. THE RAGING STORM (instrumental)
vi. DELIVERANCE
In my search I found the path
now my mind is freed at last
all thoughts that plague me
are stripped away
as I find the meaning
in the dawn of day
In the forefront of my mind
is what I left behind
in this long journey's end
I'm taken to a new light
what I had from the start
is the thing that was right
if only I had seen
deliverance was in me
And the storm, the storm was raging
I could feel it inside that night
and since I was set on changing
I have found what to stand for
and what is right
It's deliverance that I've found
with no warnings left to sound
'cause I rose above the restlessness
to find a sense of carelessness
a sense of loss, a sense of life
deliverance from my recklessness
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