"The Shame"

To taste the sun again,
To find the shade of solace in,
The telescope of verging indiscretion.

It shows the fashioned form of it,
The guise of certainty won't fit,
It keeps on moving down,
It keeps on moving down.

(Chorus)
It's a shame what we do, 
Letting caution steal our grasp,
We should change what we do,
And fuel the embers of the past,
Take the interest back.

Beneath the daze of youth,
The blank page is calling to,
The ink of letters waiting to be written.

I built this house of stone for throwing glass,
The glaring tones of introspective thoughts are contradicting themselves.

(Chorus)
It's a shame what we do,
Letting caution steal our grasp,
We should change what we do,
And fuel the embers of the past,
Take the interest back. 

To make the sun give in,
To make the sky your own again,
And drive the vehicle of pure distraction.

Making the transition finds you walking home,
The subtle drone of consciousness has pushed you from illusion again.

(Chorus)
It's a shame what we do,
Letting caution steal our grasp,
We should change what we do,
And fuel the embers of the past,
Take the interest back.


"Perceive"

It's all in the way it's seen,
We're running circles searching for what it means,
So call my bluff, or call me anything,
Is half a chance enough for empathy?

So tell me inside,
The breaking up that's shading your own light,
The taste is gone, it's only yesterday,
The wait is long, throwing the time away.

(Chorus)
That won't paint my picture (you should know),
I'll make it easy (you should know),
You say you're leaving (you should go),
That's when you start to believe it.

It's all in the way it's seen,
We're treading water, waiting for everything,
So move along, the sound is laboring,
You choose to fall, you're choosing the suffering.

(Chorus)
That won't paint my picture (you should know),
I'll make it easy (you should know),
You say you're leaving (you should go),
That's when you start to believe it.


"Right or Wrong"

Taking turns with the sympathies,
Waging wars with the remedies,
Bite your tongue blaming open doors,
For dissolving the entropy.

Bought a bag full of memories,
Laid it out for the world to see,
Matched with tears 'cuz it's all for show,
Sell it off when the last one leaves.

(Chorus)
Right or wrong,
We sing the same old sorries,
The same old song,
The same old song won't scar me.

Run it out to the end of town,
Write it off while the world goes 'round,
Why'd you wish me everything,
If you can't just let me breathe.

(Chorus)
Right or wrong,
We sing the same old sorries,
The same old song,
The same old song won't scar me. 


"Destination"

The pavement roams aimlessly to wake me up,
Decisively it reads to me,
The poetry of separation.

The highway hums today,
A song of distance for fleeting throes,
The cadence pounds away,
And from the ground impatience flows.

It's taken nothing from me,
Though I never put it all away,
I've felt the blackness of an empty road,
It's taken nothing from me,
Though it always seemed to pass the day,
The ones who fake it aren't the ones who go.

Where's your destination?
Where's your destination?


"Struck by All"

To shade my eyes from what's become today,
And lay surmising what is underway,
I don't understand this feeling,
The pain is cutting way too deeply,
It's born of all the things I can't control.

(Chorus)
I am drained,
Struck by all,
Hands still shaking,
Struck by All,
I am done.

To pay no mind to what's become today,
And never find the faults I can't abate,
I can't shake these thoughts I'm seeing,
They swallow me with force unyielding,
They're born of all the things I can't control.

(Chorus)
I am drained,
Struck by all,
Hands still shaking,
Struck by All,
I am done. 


"Candor & Pragmatism"

Chasing the hands from this reality it seems,
The confines of the confounding in-between,
To reconcile the effigy.

(To fight the walls of the innumerable)
Convinced to think that it's alright,
(To fight the laws of the inevitable)
Just to see the ideal in the same light.

You've had your fun,
Now it's time to run.

She bears the earth of practicality for you,
The gift it brings is beyond the sting of truth,
You're pushing aside the resolute.

Just drop your guard and let go,
It shouldn't take so long,
She's reaching out and you know,
The same routine won't bring you out.

(Chorus)
Don't show her the door,
Your flesh and blood will beg you,
Don't show her the door,
Your aching mind will thank you.

Please take the whole of this vitality she speaks,
The misery of your history is weak,
It can't define your chronology.

Just drop your guard and let go,
It shouldn't take so long,
She's reaching out and you know,
Please.

(Chorus)
Don't show her the door,
Your flesh and blood will beg you,
Don't show her the door,
Your aching mind will thank you.


"Rip Tide"

Taken from my dream,
You count the waves that broke before your eyes,
And you're the rip tide,
That drags me away,
That drags me away.

I can't look away,
I say your name,
You've got me hypnotized,
And you're the rip tide,
That drags me away,
That drags me away.


"Turning Point"

Stay with me I'll waste your time,
When all in all is leaving I will take the helm,
And cut my losses,
Moving on,
From feigning clauses,
'Cuz all we are is earth,
And all we do is sky,
Which leaves us the ticking clock.

When all the if's and when's are done,
The bow will cut the setting sun,
While simple things, 
And simple places,
Will clear the path,
For aging faces,
The sound of your baited breath becomes deafening,
And push comes to shove again.

If this message finds you in the corner would you get out?
And if getting older makes you colder would you get out?
This window's right for leaving,
And this current swells with meaning,
Why pick these ashes from the burning ground?

Stay with me I'll waste your time,
The salted air will bid you goodbye,
When statues fall from on their own,
They'll break the ground,
That once was home,
And if we can recognize the opportunity,
Then we'll soon be on our way.

So call the wind to carry me,
And cut me through the open sea,
I still can think,
Not long ago,
Being buried in the fallen snow,
Just stay with me,
It's all we are.

Rain,
Rain on me,
Rain,
Rain on me,
The sunshine,
Will drain on me,
What happens,
We'll wait and see.


"Sold"

Who's gonna make you innocent again?
And dream you when the night has fallen?
Nights were young in former stages,
But days ahead can fight the ages,
Sleep now,
You'll come with me wherever it is I'm going.

(Chorus)
Breathe in,
Find that place again,
I used to take you without ever knowing,
Forget,
The notion of a fraying thread,
I'd never sell it away.

I don't know who would buy me out,
And follow all the wandering about,
I've heard a passage many times,
We take for granted what we have until it climbs away,
But I disagree with it.

(Chorus)
Breathe in,
Find that place again,
I used to take you without ever knowing,
Forget,
The notion of a fraying thread,
I'd never sell it away. 

I won't sell it away.

I wanna make you innocent again,
And carry up the world you're swimming in,
I stood up at the dawn of Fall,
I said the words and meant them all.


All lyrics © 2007 Craig Wildenradt. All Rights Reserved.