All words by Andy K. Smith
“The Sea of Strange”
Grab your boots
Dawn the shades
Drops our coats
and fake a smile
Desert haze
Open pores
Visceral lapse
Unknown doors
Vapor lock
Steaming lines
Pistons pout
Motoring blind
Venture along the range
There to see the strange
Wander around the bay
There the sea of strange
Banana merchants
Melting faces
Dirty water
Bizarre places
The shore of bone
Kiss the waves
Stinging eyes
A ghost ship’s rage
The siren calls
The sky will fall
Lovers crash
and toss their rings
Venture along the range
There to see the strange
Circle around the bay
There the sea of strange
“Over the Moon”
Like leaves she falls
Swimming in the valves
of one empty chamber inside
She is summer’s tale
Flaming in the halls
of this empty heart
And left on a ferris wheel
Snatched from a broken car
You lost your mind
and then you cried
“Damn this city and the law.”
I committed no crime
But I am guilty for
falling for you
I was over the moon
I was waiting for you
We wondered out on patrol
Vigilantes in badlands
And if you recall we stumbled
on the things you lost
The lunacy were expectations
But your trophy timely arrived
Mounted on our stalemate of hesitations
Puts me over the edge
and under it crying for you
And I am sickly, over the moon
I was B /over the moon
I was waiting for you
“Flowers for the Dead, Parts I & II”
The sun’s coal kiss has entered ground
and offered its smile to those that have fallen
By the road I watch the summer’s end
on the way back home
Many reside in the arms of valleys
Decorated fields between the cities
Crosses baring unknown names that
they still carry
The prairie landscape among the fallen
We drive there grasping for a reason
In a world reluctant to cure or share
that why or how
We’ve come this far among the dead
Unnatural speed but perfect sound
I see the summer end on a year
of hanging on to closing down
Destitute flowers among the dead
They have risen from the land to the sky
This summer is a black dress
Smothered dry among the dead
“Life of Sin”
I’m fighting for my life right now
Not the right, but the will and how
Where did I let it all go?
and what have I now become?
I’m deranged to those I meet
Criminal notions on Sunday’s street
I thought I knew what love was about
But I drown tomorrow in doubt
Got to find a reason
It’s the will to live and love
Got to find the passion
It’s the will to live and love
In the mirror I found a stranger
The focal point of this danger
All I want is to scream and shout
But I drink my sorrows and doubt
I don’t know where I have been
I have led a life of sin
I don’t know where I have been
All my friends are next of kin
I have led a life of sin
All my friends are next of kin
Got to find a reason
It’s the will to live and love
Got to find the passion
It’s the will to live and love
I don’t know where I have been
I have led a life of sin
I don’t know where I have been
I have led a life of sin
“Under Darker Skies”
I want hail and winter
with you
I want thunder and sleet
to reign
I want the shock of flood
to flow
I want sweet white snow
to burn
Wilted and stained drenched we’ll fly
Someday I know it will rain with you
I want the cover of fog
to hide
I want the loom of thunder
to shout
I want the streets so slick
to run
I want the desert so dark
to cool
Wilted and stained drenched we’ll fly
Someday I know it will rain with you
Someday under darker skies
Someday I know it will rain with you
I want the dawn to slow
Never wake
I want this dream tonight
Never age
I want the oceans to crash
Not afraid
I want you tonight
I want it all
I want to share the rain
I want to share the rain
I want to share the rain
with you
Someday under darker skies
Someday I know it will rain with you
“Wednesday Is Wrong”
A night unlike any other
When the music is loud
Gossip about people you know
Some you like others you loath
And the girl with the pearls
The same party girl who’s tricked you before
Makes you feel like you’re nothing special at all.
I’m falling down
Down down the ground
I’m falling down
Don’t get me wrong
It’s hard to carry on!
I was on vacation
But I didn’t go far
Yeah, a show in Vegas (They loved us) *crowd cheers
Even after I was bored
I hit the clubs the ones I never go to
Latex, soulless, feather boa, bustier
There all alone needing more to drink
The last thing I wanted was to think
I’m falling down
Down down the ground
I’m falling down
Don’t get me wrong
I could be better tomorrow!
Left to my own devices
I was about to hit the floor
But made some conversation
A lovely girl much too young
Well, I’m drunk and helpless
Can I still come over?
And the music stopped
and I passed out beside her
Or was I alone
Nevermind, another night forgotten
I’m falling down
Down down the ground
I’m falling down
Down down the ground
Stumble push my face
Down to the ground!
“Stars Break Away”
I had to break away
Get away from L.A.
I took a rocket to the moon
But I’d be coming down soon
I did too many drugs
I took those pills with her
Mixing wine with our blood
A bittersweet trip of love
There was darkness in the sun
A twilight dream for anyone
They thought I was MIA
They even called the CIA
They informed the FBI
My name slung in the mud
But now I’m back again
My tail between my legs
I used all of my lives
My heart cut with her knife
There was darkness in the sun
A twilight dream for anyone
We slept on a star with no name
Embraced intoxicated in rain
Her hand had to guide me through
The mystery of this new moon
And when the rain fell hard deep inside
Our kiss cindered down to the ground
There was darkness in the sun
A twilight dream for anyone
We slept on a star with no name
Embraced intoxicated in the rain
“Let’s Take a Train”
What I like about you
is you make me crazy
but you make me so sad
You’re the sweetest thing
to me
But this makes me so mad
What I think
we should do
Is not get so angry
You know what I mean
You say you wanna
leave the clubs behind
Well darling come closer
We can leave them all tonight
Let’s take a train down the tracks
We can leave my car behind
Drive back in the morning
Early dawning
For another point of view
Let’s take a train down a path
We can leave them all behind
Darling come closer
Well darling come closer
Darling come closer
We can change our point of view
Let’s take a train
“Wake Up”
I looked at you
the highest sweet
The clouds are grey
and the world around just
blurs and fades
We stand in ruins
Our lives have changed
They fall apart
but we live to die
for another day
Uncertain you humor me
I clutch onto a memory
I hold you the emeralds I seek
They send me trembling
I cannot speak
I’m asking you to wake up
I’m hoping you will just wake up
Wake up and sing to me
Like you use to do
Wake up oh can’t you see
That my intentions are true
Earnestly I hold out hope
Could this be the last time?
There’s a key we like to pass
It opens doors I’m longing for you
to end this mystery
I’m waiting for you to wake up
I’m hoping you will just wake up
Wake up and sing to me
Like you use to do
Wake up oh can’t you see
That this promise is true
Wake up Wake up
Wake up Wake up
Wake up and sing to me
Like you use to do
Wake up oh can’t you see
That my promise is true
Wake up Wake up
Wake up Just wake up
Wake up
“The Siren’s Call”
A siren disguised as song
approached with a warning
Yesterday’s odyssey
Drown gone away
The secret kept away from her
trickling slowly down my
mask and trailing off
Smeared in a strange place
We walked an aberrant path
Vile but once sweet
In its core a boy and girl
Lost trapped in time
Our lives purged from her
And the shock of flood and regret
Unformed and now dead
Seeds ending in our blood
And the siren disguised as song
Seduction her harbor’s throne
No siren’s song nor tale
would proclaim the flood
She came to me in the rain
Took me back in closer
To her song
To the sound
Take heed
of the siren’s call
Take heed
of the siren’s call
Take heed
of the siren’s call
I knew
it would all end
Take heed
of the siren’s call
Take heed
of the siren’s call
Take heed
of the siren’s call
“Our Sky’s Falling”
I would give you the world
Put it in your hands
But what’s the point in giving
something you reject
Still I could
If you perceive
that this world still offers
something new
I could give you tomorrow
Trust in your forgotten dreams
But what’s the use in handing
something you neglect
Still I would
If I could see shine
the sun that set
in your clouded skies
Our sky’s falling
Our dreams are dying
They’re starting to fade
into memory
Our sky’s falling
Our dreams are dying
Our sky is falling
I should give you the truth
Write it down for your eyes
But what’s the use of words
that say goodbye
Still I might
If we should perish
in self doubt and
fear like they do
Our sky’s falling
Our dreams are dying
They’re starting to fade
into yesterday
lingering hopes
distant ties
Our sky is falling
Our dreams are dying
Our sky is falling
Even if you’re still frozen
Even if we’re still broken
What I would give
to see those dreams again
believe in them
to start again
Our sky’s falling
Our dreams are dying
They’re starting to fade
into yesterday
Our sky’s falling
Our dreams are dying
What I would give for
a cure to stop the end
Our sky is falling
“The Circle Is Complete”
All loss has come to pass
Friends, gems, and all dealings
The things that seem to crumple
Brings about new meaning
Our hands again now open
Breaks the spell at the seams
After the quake has rumbled
Our fragile hearts and lives
Run the rim of volcanoes
The ashes will settle
Those departed
Make their way
for the next circle
The circle is complete
The circle is complete
No more do we tremble
Our flailings now tempered
The circle is complete
The circle is complete
The circle is now complete
The circle is now complete
And the circle has traveled
We are finally clean
Makes way for a third
Always in waves of three
The circle is complete
We are finally free
“Rumors”
The crowd walks over our heads
We grab their ankles headed for sunrise
Not surprised we finally me
Under the stairs til the guard says go!
Go………..Go………..We’re gone
I thought I’d impress you on funny things
A guess about your birthday
I’d pull the strings and all the stops
But, I know I missed the train again
Again………Again…….and again
They will really try
to sell you on rumors
So sweet and young I wonder
How ya gonna know the difference
Of where trouble really lies?
With all our written history
I thought you slept alone
The bullet train that you ride
Slips right past serendipity
A shot fired through my senses
A hole in my plans
The irony you’re not alone
The reminder I’m much too slow
Slow…..Slow……Here’s she comes now!
They will really try
to sell you on rumors
So sweet and young I wonder
How ya gonna know the difference
Of where trouble really lies?
Of where trouble really lies…
“A Few Short Days”
We held that day of reckoning
When an old way to share
once again became hope for
people like us
We said faith had been restored
in something we lost
I turned to you to catch another
glimpse of the reasons why
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short nights and it’s over
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short days that we dreamed…..
Many years we didn’t believe
We were scared the lies
were true
But what I found so unkind
an intellect so cruel…..
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short nights and it’s over
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short days that we dreamed…..
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short nights and it’s over
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short days that we dreamed…..
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short nights and it’s over
A few short days and it’s gone
A few short days that we dreamed
“The Rain”
Laughing through the rain into the night
The fireworks of the falling sky
The sound of the storm shone through the lights
For a moment I let go…..I let go
I found myself all alone lost in the cold
And the rain made me shiver
Falling through the pain into forever
For a second I was whole…..I was whole
And the rain is falling / And the rain is coming
The rain is falling / The rain is coming
The drifting silver moon, clouds alive
The icy blue drops of December
The song of the wind held me so high
For a night I let go…..I was whole
And the rain is falling / And the rain is coming
The rain is falling / The rain is coming
Washing away the tears / Obliterate the fear
And the rain is falling / And the rain is coming
And the rain is falling /And the rain is coming
Washing away the tears / Capitulate my fears
Laughing through the rain into the night
For a moment I let go…..I let go
“Broken Glass”
She kicks and screams inside the car
Fetal crouch, eyes running black
No longer with the stars
Novas burst inside this womb
Then her heels start to crack
Stars appear on broken glass
Neurosis paints the night upon
Futile salt’s mournful wounds
Her heart dangles above the cracks
of shattered glass and broken dreams
Her wrists balance above the cracks
of insecure vanity
Then her soles start to scream
Cracks appear on broken glass
Female tears rest on lips
trembling in self deceit
She’s lost control, she can’t hold on
And I can’t hold on anymore
It’s the sound of broken glass
Shattering through everything
I’d ever known
“Peeling Grey”
Your walls are painted grey
Your room in disarray
It was my home too
Holding the memory of you
Your love has strayed away
Your doors hiding you away
The emptiness that I feel
Holding the ghost of you
My hands have chipped away
Your walls peeling grey
The swine that you engaged
Fueled fire for my rage
Always there to save him
You lost your faith in us
My hands have chipped away
Your walls peeling grey &
My hands have chipped away
Your walls peeling grey
In this rebirth of sorts
In this brand new collapse
In memory of you
My love will last
Hands chipping away
Walls peeling grey
Hands chipping away
Walls peeling grey
Hands chipping away
“James Quarterly”
He walks along, along the line
He treads along the great divide
And he knows the price he’ll pay
I’ve prayed for him most everyday
He walks along, along the way
He wants it all in every way
There’s no reason for him to stay
There’s nothing standing in his way
Trying hard not to feel so bad, Trying hard not to feel so sad
Trying hard not to get so mad, He talked about the great divine
He walks along, along nine lives
He talked about the great divide
Chemical pleasures was his thing of the past
That special drug would not last
He walks along and counts the time
There’s no reason for him to hide
Twenty four hours I was on the line
James don’t you know that I’m on your side
Trying hard not to feel so bad, Trying hard not to feel so sad
Trying hard not to get so mad, Trying hard not to be so sad
He talked about the great divine
Ho ah, Ho ah, Ho ah
He walks along, along the line / He walks along the great divide
There’s no reason for him to stay / There’s no reason for him to stay
There’s no reason for him to stay / There’s no reason for him to stay
“The Strip”
Take a look around is your body in plastic?
Stand in your cellar firing all your rockets
A symphony of rounds impacting your opponents
Running for the hills won’t make much a difference
Oh mother, do you lie awake?
Oh father, do you die another day?
Dying on the strip never minding the poppycock
See her hand body swallowed by the sand
Resort to a treaty or take another stand
(They can see through you)
The incoming army will conquer all the land
(They can see through you)
Oh mother, do you lie awake?
Oh father, what is your fate?
Oh sister, do you die another day?
A symphony of rounds
impacting your opponents
(They can see through you)
The six day war
never really seem to end
(They can see through you)
Retaliation tactics,
your vision is so tragic
(They can see through you)
The strip and the bank,
now there’s nothing to defend
(They can see through you)
….They can see through you.
“The World’s Not Sorry”
This is not the time to burn out, This is not the time to fade
Hide from the truth and tune out, This is not the time to break
This is not the time to walk out, This is not the time to flee
Run run run and break away, This is not the time for fear
This is not the time to hide out, This is not the time to cry
Hide your head in quicksand, This is not the time to sink
This is not the time to go away, This is not the time to blink
Run run run and turn away, I heard them say….
They want you to know, This is not a play on words
They want you to know
The world’s not really sorry, The world’s not really sorry….
This is not the time to give up, This is not the time to fail
Stray from the truth and live a lie, This is not the time to die
This is not the time for compromise, See the truth with open eyes
Run run run and turn away, I heard them say….
They want you to know, This is not a play on words
They want you to know
The world’s not really sorry, They’re not not really sorry
They’re not not really sorry, They’re not not really sorry
The world’s not really sorry….
This is not the time to burn out, This is not the time to fade
Hide your head like a bird, This is not the time to cry
There’s so may people without the words,
There’s so many people without the hope,
There so many people without the words, I heard them say….
They want you to know, This is not a play on words
They want you to know
The world’s not really sorry, They’re not not really sorry
They’re not not really sorry, They’re not not really sorry
The world’s not really sorry….
“Far Away”
I had to exit off this road
Reached the end again, stopped making sense
I was there in the middle of a dream
Never mind what mattered, it doesn’t work no more
I pushed it far away
I had to push it far way
I pushed it far away
I had to push it far way (far away)
Here I am again, lost and never found
Don’t you wish you could escape?
Leave it all behind, live through blind fate
So I left the pack of lies
I saw some stragglers along the way
Lost souls in the patches of grey
Fellow travelers set in their ways
It was time to drive the silver machine
I pushed it far way (far away)
I had to push it far way (far away)
The truth I live is very cold
Keeping me alive like a reptile
And it always works when you’re not there
The thing is you’ll always be alone
That’s the secret you’ll always be alone
That’s the trip you’ll always be alone
Yeah, That’s the trick you’ll always be alone
I pushed it far way (far away)
I had to push it far way (far away)
I pushed it far way (far away)
I had to push it far away (far away
I’ll save it for a rainy day……
“Sleeping In Dirty Hands”
There’s an old Japanese man sleeping in your dirty hands
I tried to understand but started making plans
There’s an old Japanese man kissing on your filthy bed
I tried to hold your hand but started making plans
I know the truth of what they said happened to you
Dirty tales of abuse, Inflated lies so neatly produced
I sought out the words of a man much older than you
He tried to understand but already made his secret plans
And that poor old Japanese man sleeping in your dirty bed
Never had a chance after you laid out your filthy scam
Back to that older man, he also slept in your famous bed
What I thought was the truth goes against your broken words
There’s an old Japanese man sleeping in your dirty hands
I’ll never understand but thankfully I made my plans
I know the truth of what they said happened to you
Dirty tales of abuse, Inflated lies so neatly produced
There’s an old Japanese man sleeping in your dirty hands
I tried to understand but started making plans
There’s an old Japanese man kissing on your filthy bed
I tried to hold your hand but started making plans
I know the truth of what they said happened to you
Dirty tales of abuse, Inflated lies so neatly produced
There’s an old Japanese man sleeping in your dirty hands
I’ll never understand but thankfully I made my plans
I know the truth of what they said happened to you
Dirty tales of abuse, Inflated lies so neatly produced
“Summer Days Unsaid”
Summer days are near again
You did well to play it cool
Someone said to be careful
Caught you smiling at me my friend
Hand in hand your head on me
Slide in deep and I’m out of breath
Your sweet smile and lost caress
Summer daze and I’m found again
Where did you go now after your stay?
I’d follow you but I drove away
Where did you with so much unsaid?
Summer days are lost again
I’d play the fool if I told you the truth
Of summer days that I wish for
And the trouble I know we’d make
Would we put all the lovers to shame?
Where did you go now after your stay?
I’d follow you but I drove away
Where did you with so much unsaid?
Summer days are here again……and lost again
Could we ever reach the summer sky?
Would we ever breach that all time high?
Could I ever break the fear of wanting you?
The fear of holding you….
Where did you go now after your stay?
I’d follow you but I drove away
Where did you go with so much unsaid?
Summer days are near again……and found again
Could we ever reach the summer sky?
Would we ever breach that all time high?
Would you ever cut the pretense?
Could I ever break the fear of wanting you?
The fear of holding you?
“Young Heart”
It’s getting hard to explain
It’s getting hard to even entertain
This is the story of a young heart
This is the story that nearly tore apart
When we walked across the pier
Shallow water cut through the fear
The gentle breeze of ocean waves
They sang a song across your face
When I was younger I felt just like you
When I was younger I dreamt just like you
It gets bad for you to understand
When all you want is to take my hand
Long distance matters wouldn’t make it easy
Long distance callers would drive me crazy!
When I heard your tears on the phone
It was the sound that made me feel old
Don’t worry, don’t explain
Two hearts can share the blame
I’m sorry for everything
At least there won’t be games
It’s getting hard to hide the pain
I can’t ignore the feeling of shame
I was left in this instance
A young heart left me listless
When I was younger I felt just like you
When I was younger I dreamt just like you
This is the story of a young heart
This is the sound of that young spark
This is the story of a young heart
This is the sound of that young spark
“Soulless”
Turn around and hide cuz they’re coming for you
They’re the dark and soulless with nothing to prove
Hide away your fears or they’ll prey on you
They’re the lost and soulless coming for you
Now I’m kinda worried cuz they’re staring at me
Look into their eyes and you’ll see what I mean
They don’t seem to care about anything
They’re the dark and soulless coming for me
Are you soulless?
soulless
soulless
soooull-lah-ha-less!
Suppose I give in and have a drink
Join the ranks of all the bothered cynics
Close my eyes in darkness and the sun fades away
All I have to lose now is my soul!
And I’m soulless
soulless
soulless
soooull-lah-ha-less!
1….2….3….4…..
Soulless
soulless
soulless
soooull-lah-ha-less!
and I’m Soulless
soulless
soulless
soooull-lah-ha-less!
No pain
No hope
No love
Just soulless
Are you soulless?
Are you soulless?
Are you soulless?”
“The End of the Road”
Journey my way down this path / Now it’s time to look back
Every trip has and end, Every trip has and end
My eyes are open again / Each turn taken in sin
Driving through desert at night, Driving through desert at night
Years have passed now gone / And her voice is old
Echoing endlessly, echoing endlessly
Seeds have sprouted and grown / We all reap what we sow
Juncture brings clarity, Juncture brings clarity
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where the story ends, This is where life begins
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where I have control, This is where I let it go
Showing little resistance / Wasn’t of my insistence
The spineless lose again, The spineless lose again
It’s now in my conscience / Ingrained in my philosophy
There’s no going back, There’s no going back
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where the story ends, This is where life begins
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where I have control, This is where I let it go
Driving down that road / Kept me out of control
Many years I’m ashamed, Many years I’m ashamed
Driving through desert at night, Driving through desert at night
Driving through desert at night, Driving through desert at night
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where the story ends, This is where life begins
This is the end of the road of the road, This is the end of the road of the road
This is where I have control, This is where I let it go
This is the end of the road
“Faith In Forever”
You told me you can’t place faith in forever
Something abstract so intangible in me
You tell me it’s impossible for you
You told me you can’t place faith in forever
You told me not to place faith in you
Something you lost something I fought through the years
Many incentives that never saw the day
You told me you can’t place faith in forever
Believe in tomorrow but not in forever
You told me not to have faith in love
Live for today, learn to love another day
You told me you can’t place faith in forever
You told me you can’t place faith in forever
“Away From Home”
There she goes again
Fucking with my head
Pumping pulling my brain
For all her dirty deeds
For all her dirty schemes and I’m gone
And I’m away from home
Away from home
Away from home
Away from home and I’m gone
There I go again
I said I’d never ever do it again
She has taken my friends from me
She has taken everything
And I’m away from home
Away from home
Away from home
Away from home and I’m gone
I am going far from home…….