Speed of Darkness

Hey, I'm looking up to catch the last days of eden
Hey, I want someone just to step on the brakes
For everyone right here
We're astronauts on a sphere

I feel I'm hanging on a thread of a prayer
Yeah, we're born, we can't really leave
We wish for someone who cares
Who's maybe not even there

Yeah, what is it we don't understand
They're throwing bombs in the holy land
Yeah, religions are killing
The love that's missing
We are right at the end of the plan
Now God prays to man...
Now God prays to

Cuz this is the life we belong to
Yeah, the battles we fought for the world
And we know how it hurts
The fighting's done here on earth

Send the doctor home alone with the sickness
What we've got, we got to treat on our own
Don't spread the disease
Don't tell me what to believe

Yeah, what is it they don't understand
Before the amazon turns into sand
Yeah, suck the earth dry, last soul hits the light
She's saying it's out of her hands
Now God prays to man
Now God prays to man
Now God is praying to man

Yeah, what is it we don't understand?
Dirty money cleaning old hands
Yeah, the poor goes to heaven,
The rich will be staying
I guess we are right at the end of the plan

Now God prays to man

Nobody wants to be
But somebody has
To be one one who cries
That it is not quite right
Here in paradise
When your body's made up
But not your mind
Take it from me
What you stole, what you lost
What you gave, you will never see

The 1st time you will get it for free
But, the 2nd she will leave you'll see
She is straight in your arm
The 3'rd time's the harm
How many last times be 4
How many last times be 4
She'll be setting you free

Look for a safer place
And you are willing to wait
And to laugh at yourself
Ready to tell when the time
Through hell is paid
And every step's a release
You see
Round every corner's a way
You can tell it's no trick
By the sound
When you speak
That you wanna believe again

It was a small town
She threw herself to the wind
She was the wild one
I could taste the dream on her skin
Because her soul
It's what I am here for
Because she reminds me
Of what I care for

I'll wrap my arms around a memory
And I'll be sleeping with the ghost
Yeah, for love to last through
Everything that love endures
I'll need a heart as soft a yours

In a dream last night
I heard the words I longed to hear
Looking left and right
I couldn't see anyone here
But the light
It's what I am here for
Shining on my past
And on my future

Power madness
Crazy iron blood
Stuck at the back bench
Yeah, you're too afraid to speak up
But they hurt you
And you learned your lesson well
Now terror's a virtue
Yeah, you know that stuff yourself

Tell me how you want it to end
At the speed of darkness
Yeah, it's slowly rolling in
No one watches
Yeah. It's creeping back again
At the speed of darkness
The shadows rein you in
Cold and heartless
At the speed of darkness

Stupid empire
You are not the first to fail
The dark pride will misfire
Because we only grow in love
Yeah, youre waiting for nothing
For the illusion to be complete
You are dead man walking
Yeah, you walk on rotten feet

If the world needs a washing
Let it rain
Yeah for the future
If there is such a thing
Hey, do you know just how fast it'll end?
At the speed of darkness
At the speed of darkness

Power nonsense
Let it all go up in flames
It's not how the world ends
No, it how it all begins..

I've been waiting
To burn up in my own flames
With a hunger any meal couldn't change
To jump into a world
Of wolves and angels
To never know when paradise
Would end

True love and I'm falling
Head over heels
But I stumbled right
Before your eyes
I didn't get your heart
True love and then I fall

I've been living with my head
Up in the clouds
Until everything we did
Turned black or white
Until you couldn't shine
Your otherworldly aura
Until I saw
You've never really
Learned to fly

True love and I'm falling
Head over heels
But you stumbled
Right before my eyes
I didn't get your heart
True love and then I fall

Yeah, true love and I'm falling
Head over heels
Cuz I saw the fire
In your eyes
Wasn't burning in your heart
True love and then I'll fall
Yeah. True love and then I fall

Yeah, she could have been
The future
But, I got to be here now
A second chance
'Cos now confusion is behind me
And I'm no longer lost in time
Yeah some signs are missing
But, now I understand

That it takes time
and it takes tears
To see that change is finally here
When the life that you want
And the life that you live
It's two different countries
With an ocean between

Bridges will burn
And hearts will turn
If you live by fire yeah
Bridges will burn
And I'll never learn
Why hearts will turn
But if you live by fire
Yeah, bridges will burn

I'm waiting up with that
Sweet itching
From the pills I took last night
For your words without compassion
And without care
Yeah, the words you tell to noone
They should be secrets that you keep
Cuz, if I can't get away from trouble
Then why am I here?

I fry my mind
It's too raw
Looking for someone
Who knows this war
Yeah, it's a house
Together alone
The lights are out
But everybody's home

Im ready now
Tell me the way to where the gold is
Cuz I can't find
What I want and where my soul is
And I don't know
If my father heards me now
And where I go
Are there some things I need to know?

Settling with my ancestors
By old religious roads
Forgiven by the universe
But hurting to unload
It is coming back in waves now
My way out is going in
I'm backwards out of dreams
I fly on crazy, I fly on crazy wings..

Back on earth
Yeah, I do it like I used to
But a little worse
Cuz the punishment feels all new
I had a look
And I saw past the point of too far
And there's no rules
I guess we walk the way we are
Settling..

I can't be flying forever
I'm getting lost in thin air
There's a world I belong to
Right here..

The last words on earth
You got to learn the rhythm to speak
You made it to where you're at
Oh you've been where history's been
Yeah, your heart is dirty
But, your head it looks allright
So shut your mouth
On guilt and shame
We came from nowhere
So pull your weight
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down

A small flame of hope
Is kept alive by gagging the soul
You don't need it anyway, you say
And you've got 10 more reasons I know
Yeah, you thought a hard time
Was the way it's supposed to be
Look what we've gone and done
We upped the fun
Yeah, we can do it
But not alone

Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
Yeah, you've got to keep that motherfucker down

We need this life to work
Yeah, we need love and space to survive
So raise your feelings now
Yeah, give your soul a beatiful ride

Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
You take the hammer of love ...
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
And hit yourself real soft
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
Yeah, and if that ain't enough
Yeah, you've got to keep that mother down
You hit yourself real hard

Yeah, I still wear a uniform
For a long lost cause
I've got triple vision
From falling off a horse
Everybody loves a soldier
Until the war is lost
But, it's never really over
It's not a line you cross

So much more
And Im not a fool to believe it
So much more
It's almost out of reach
There'll be strange terrain
Ill fall again
Never the same way twice my friend
So much more
It's all I see

Yeah, the world is getting older
But, I was born today
Every day's an execution
And then I rise again
I'm coming out of the trenches
All in the name of change
Ill shut the voices in my head now
Coz noone listens anyway

So much more
And I'm not a fool to believe it
So much more
It's almost out of reach
I fought a war
You know what for?
So you don't have to fight no more
It aint no race
Just take my place
You don't feel good
Just walk away
Yeah, there'll be strange terrain
Just try again
But never the same way twice my friend
So much more
It's what I see
It's what I see yeah

Into your future that you cannot see from here
Ive seen lunacy in slow motion
It's how you look when it's all figured out
You're afloat in a delusional ocean
You don't know what it's really about

However hard you look
It quickly disappears
Everything is gone now
Whatever it was you did
It quickly disappears
everything is gone now
Hower hard you try
It quickly disappears
Everything is gone now
Into a future
You can not see from here
You're getting rid of the fear of decisions
Or getting rid of the future indeed
It's what you say to yourself in the mirror
Where did I go - the cowboy in me.

You fear there is no surprises
Nothing remains but the old
But the only future that is given
Is the one that you don't know

Everybody run now..
Aint none of us going back there
Everybody run now
Enslaved and unaware
Everybody run now
We've nothing else to do
But losing our minds
Easy living is hard to find

No more surprises
I've been looking for something new
No more suprises
Nothing remains the same

Yeah, your dad was a punk
He loved your hippie mom
And though those times are all gone
You still see something's wrong
Coz they've been rigging the race
Leaving dreams without space
And kept it all to themselves

You're getting fooled but can't tell
All you ever want is automatic survival
By the time life starts we're dead on arrival
See the longest line of souls
With their eyes closed
All they ever want is automatic survival...

You want the key or the bread?
Inside the prisoners head
Because you are scared and afraid
You gave your freedom instead
The winner's got your vote
The winner lied and he stole
A scream that stays in your throat
You're gonna pay with your soul

You want a round of applause
For ignoring the cause?
The loss of hope
And the absence of trust
Yeah, are we mad enough?

I've seen a lot of things I'd wish I hadn't
And there's still things that I hope not to see
Going from failure to failure with enthusiasm
Knowing dreams are cheaper than free

Yeah, it's not where you stand of what you're looking at
It's the direction you move when you move
A restless spirit on an endless run
The ever changing thruth..

It tears you up
And rips you up inside
It never hurts
Until it hits your heart
I'll know somehow
But it wont be now
Waiting is the way
Waiting is the way to find out...

I can't be punished by what I couldn't know
So ignore - I'm not willing to see
But the way of the soul is never blind
It's a highway above burning trees
Nothing is certain you gotta navigate
Be ready be quick

It tears you ...
Waiting is the way to find out

Mmm listen here,
We've got to bring the light
If I can walk in yours
Then you can walk in mine

Walk me through
Tell me how
We'll know someday
But it wont be now

It tears you up
And rips you up inside
Come with me we'll
Get there side by side
It never hurts
Until it hits the heart
It tears you up
And rips you inside
You'll know somehow
But it wont be now
Waiting is the way
Waiting is the way to find out.

I'll write a letter to my future self
In my childhood room with the globe on the shelf
You'll learn your lessons
But, you'll learn them late
At least no men in white coats
Will ever drag you away

A dream is hard to live
Cuz it's easy to see
How quick it disappears
You're so afraid it slips away

I open my eyes
I'm still here
I followed to my dreams
Despite of my fears
I open my eyes
I'm still here
Like it wasn't me
But angels in here

I'll send a message to the former me
If you feel stuck in one place
Don't be afraid to break free
You see, the one's who say
You're not enough
Are the exact same ones
That you've been giving too much

Yeah, love is divine
It's easy to see
How it could trick your mind
When they threaten
To take it away

I open my eyes
I'm still here
I followed my heart
Despite of the tears
I open my heart
Yeah, I'm still here
Like it wasn't me
Like there were angels in here