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VANDERHOOF LYRICS
"A Blur In Time" (2002)
1. 30 Thousand Feet
2. Electric Love Song
3. High Street
4. Nowhere Train
5. 3 AM
6. Unchanged
7. If There's a Song
8. Brand New Light
9. Surface Of Another Planet
10. Sleeping Giant
11. Sonic Blur In Time
1. 30 Thousand Feet
Headed home, flyin' alone
The horizon meets my window seat
There's nothin' to fear
To my eyes it appears I've got the world turnin' at my feet
It's easy ridin' on the wings of fate
To mistake all this beauty for peril
Through my window how the world appears
To be so simple and so sterile
A man scans the land and he stares
And marvels at his own damnation
It's easy to see how a man can believe
That he's the master of his own salvation - Yeah!
Leave a trail of doubt behind you
Pray to God 'cuz someone told you to
Now you're ridin' on the inside and keepin' the faith
At 30,000 feet
A silver lining is a thin disguise
On a debt that you can never repay
A penny here or a dollar there
While your soul keeps slippin' away
Always taken for granted everything that had ever come easy
When the hard times hit, all alone you'll sit,
'Cuz you were never there to please me
2. Electric Love Song
Born in the mind and digitized on electric light and waves
Love connected at the speed of light
Isolated, integrated, hungry for the touch
Of anything that gets you through the night
You see her, you want her, reach out to touch her
But this love is an electric lover's lie
Letters written, digitized and sent without a trace
A false facade, a face from cyber-space
Twisted typing, weaving wishes of dreams that won't come true
This electric love affair is fooling you
You see her, you want her, reach out to touch her
But this love is an electric lovers lie
You need her, you feel her, you've got to have her
But this love is an electric lovers lie
Broken hearted, disconnected, vanished and erased
An electric lover gone without a trace
3. High Street
By kind permission and a saving grace
I touched down in a wonderful place
A lady from the north said, she'd show me around
And I still can see her face
Wish me on my way
I won't be coming back today
I bid you all good-bye
I'll send a card when I arrive
Across the water through a daylight dream
Above the mountains I hear it call to me
When are you coming back, when are you coming back to me
Someday I'll make it there, I'll make it back to my High Street
When I landed, somehow it felt like home
A feeling that I've never, ever known
Is there something in the water?
Is there something in it that I need?
Someday I'll make it there, I'll make it back to my High Street
4. Nowhere Train
Riding on this carousel of life, can we ever make it through?
Time is moving faster, but I feel that we're learning nothing new
We are driven, bound for glory it's our claim to fame
Like sands falling through our fingers you know we're ridin' on that
Nowhere train
A world that's ever changing like the seasons of a desert landscape do
We as drifters always search for anything that's tangible and true
So let the teachers tell us what to think, but let our hearts learn how to feel
We're all born to ride the rails of life and choose in what we know is real
Like sands falling through our fingers we keep ridin' on and on
Like sands falling through our fingers we keep rollin' on and on
On and on, rollin' on and on
5. 3 AM
Pitch black is all that I can see
Wide awake, the ceiling stares at me
And this bed, a prison cell again
I'm on the outside lookin' in
Who will save us from these sins
And a world of tortured, soulless greed
I took a walk through the mind of the insane
A wicked picture without a frame
A shattered world of emptiness and cold
I've done my crime, I've done my time
Forgive me Lord for the hundredth time
I'm on my knees and beggin' please
From mind to pen a dark nights end
The ink and paper start to blend
Burned sanity's candle at both ends
It's 3:00 A.M.
Outside, standing in the rain
I think I'll the subway train
Outside the confines of my mind
Next stop, a place that's all too real
The only place that I can feel
In world of sterility and pain
I've wasted all my precious time
Mister please... can you spare a dime
For a man whose humanity was lost?
Years pass, within this empty tomb
Within the solace of my quiet room
On the streets of society again
This pen is empty like my soul
Inside the darkness has control
It's getting harder to ignore
At 3:00 A.M.
From mind to pen a dark nights end
The ink and paper start to blend
Burned sanity's candle at both ends
It's 3:00 A.M.
6. Unchanged
I have left the waters edge so many times before
To drink the wine of promises, to search for lies untold
It makes me wonder who I am, and hold my head in pain
No peace among these city streets
The song begins again... and again!
The bitter taste of love is sweet, when you feel you're all alone
I've run so far from happiness, I may never make it home
I don't believe you, I can't believe you, when you show me love
The quiet, aching desperation, still gentle as a dove
I remain unchanged
But all around me is rearranged
The world is turning and times are strange
I remain unchanged
I remain unchanged
But all around me the world is strange
There's no one else that I can blame
I remain unchanged
I'll be around
This old, sad clown
You can let me down
The one who just left town
7. If There's a Song
Peace and love it had to go
We've got a brand new T.V. show - Oh yeah!
Getting your addictions right
Prescription filled it's outta' site - Oh yeah!
For those who might survive the night,
One more chance to get it right - Oh yeah!
If there's a song that can change the world
Then it's a song that I haven't heard
If there's a song that can change the world
Maybe we can sing along, might help us make it through
Time it moves at our expense
Living in the present tense - Oh yeah!
Maybe now it's time to pray,
Or plan your next big holiday - Oh yeah!
So park your head and walk away,
Floating on your feet of clay - Oh yeah!
This rhyme is done for what it's worth,
so say good-bye to Mother Earth - Oh yeah!
8. Brand New Light
Now that the world has changed, how will I make my music?
How will I write what I want to say?
I'm so tired of all the anger
And the lack of hope and cynics
It makes me dream of better days
And I do...
Just give me one good melody
One that makes for you a memory
A moment that takes you far away
It can be so simple
It doesn't even have to rhyme
All it takes is heart and soul in time...
Hear the song, in a brand new light
A light you may remember
From a time it felt alright
You know it just might lift you up
And never bring you down
And lead you on a different path
And turn it back around
To a time of innocence
When magic was a sound, ooh yeah
I know you think I'm crazy
Never changing with the times
I'm trying to get the magic back
I'll just stay here in my mind
Now that the world has changed, how will I make my music?
That makes me dream of better days
9. Surface Of Another Planet
10. Sleeping Giant
Shooting from a cannon into sonic overdrive
Flashing in the nighttime burns a hole right through the sky
See the angels stabbing at the demons of deceit
Watch your step today, my friend, they're waiting at your feet
I think you made a big mistake, I think the giant is awake
The giant is awake
Dark clouds drift apart to allow a little light
Coming out of nowhere to remove your second sight
All the masses swarming to catch a better glimpse
Laughing on a throne of tears, that's where your jester sits
You can't see the trees that lie directly in your view
Forest keeping secrets, keeping it from you... keeping it from you
Everything you need to know, we're keeping it from you!
11. Sonic Blur In Time
In my isolated world, adrift on wings of sound
Back in time I'm dreamin', as weariness surrounds
Lead me into altered states, into the abyss
Trapped inside the harmony of momentary bliss
Just ride on wings of sound, and let them set you free
A sonic blur in time, is all I'll ever be, it's what I'm meant to be
An instrument of misspent youth, I soon would rule the day
I'd never let them drag me down, no matter what they'd say
I bought it for a while, but my future seemed so black
It cost my precious sanity, but now my spirits back
I'd do it all for money, I'd do it all for fame, I'd do 'cuz I love it all
It's just a game
I'm just a sonic blur in time
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