**"Resuscitation Of A Dead Man":**
Ambulance, let me in.
Don't make me stay here.
Ambulance, hold your breath.
We're running short on air:
Breathe it in. Resuscitate.
At the edge, you see clearly.
I was dead now I'm back to life
And love is a fragile thing.
We all stand on a bridge
That's been slowly burning down

Ambulance, take me back
To the house I was born in.
Ambulance, finish it.
Don't wake me up again.

Breathe in, breathe out. Resuscitate.
Blink if you're hearing this.
Are we clear?
Set the charge. Take the hit.
Clear! Just one more time:
Breathe it in, breathe it in,
While there's still time.

We could be the heartbeat
And everything nine-tenths collapsed
Would come back to life.
We could be the breath of air
Pushed into the lungs of the dying.
Can you feel a pulse?
It's been stopped for so long.
Can you start it?
Let's restart it.
With a kick drum hit
With a thousand voices
With a single word:
Live, live, live.

**"Last Call":**
This is the last time
That you'll ever hear me say:
Last call for a better life
In wedding bells and cheap champagne.
Last call for a friday night
In bathroom stalls and crowded bars.
Last call. Right before your eyes,
We celebrate our separate lives.
Last call. Where are your friends?
They're speaking secrets in a silent shout:
Everything we build, it falls apart,
And the architect abandons us.

Last call, when I held you tight,
The dj played cuts from The Knife.
Last call, where we used to meet,
Now we look away and we skip a beat.
Circular breathing will separate these feelings
With heart attack efficiency,
Erase the figure as it falls.

(Support collapses at the center of this opposition.
This infrastructure calls for circular resuscitation)

The wedding starts
The guests appear
The church bells ringing endlessly
Bride and groom are hand in hand
And everything goes as it's planned:
The parents smile,
The priest chokes up,
The organ plays "Amazing Grace"
And underneath the thin white veil
You can hear them say:
"Last call for the matching hearts
Last call for the yellow birds
Last call for the two of us"
And the people sing
La la la la, la la la.

**"As He Climbed The Dark Mountain":**
I've watched him
walk away
To climb the endless
shadows side
I've watched him
holding on
It was a thousand years
A thousand miles, a
thousand dreams,
a thousand endings
With no goodbyes.
He disappeared from me
As he climbed the
highest peak of the
dark mountain.
Let the mountain sleep
In the past with all our
bad dreams.
Was it a metaphor for
all the subtle ways
that we'd grow apart?
Was it mortality
climbing him blind right
off the edge of his life
Into the hands of a
loving god?
Or a raging void where
we get torn apart?
With his hand in
the air,
Was he laughing and
dancing or only just
trying to wave goodbye?
Did he say a prayer for
me as he climbed
the highest peak of the
the dark mountain?
Let the mountains fall.
Strike me down until I
can't go on.
Right now, let me fall
down under the ground.
Do we go on alone?
It felt like a thousand years
It was a thousand miles away

**"Friends In The Armed Forces":**
There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight
And it's pinned to chests of the latest liars.
If you try to speak your mind
They tell you "keep it to yourself-
You've got friends in the armed forces."
They want to know which side you're on
But it doesn't matter because we're all being used
To train, to fight
To disregard all human rights
To play the part of
The conscience of the damned.
You say you're defending me?
I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons,
Praying not to see
Another folded flag to a mourning mother.
He was an army of one but they'll find another
And in the fold of the body bag
She'll find a check for a hundred grand
She's got friends in the armed forces.
Now we know what a soldier costs
But what's the cost for the rest of us
To take a life
We all have our price:
The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds.
You say you're defending me.
Well I'm out tying yellow ribbons on every single tree
I've seen them float like butterflies back home.
I can fell the desert's heat when you're standing next to me
Our friendship offers no relief.
Stay with me now just hear me out:
Don't want to lose you to the great black cloud that's
coming down.
You've seen the path a bullet makes when it calls you by
your name
And the medic can't play the rhythm of your heart
So it starts to feel like footsteps in a march as the parade
passes by.
The ticker-tape will rise like sparks when we're born
To change our minds,
Everything that's wrong looks right.
The lives we lead are somewhere in between.

March: Left, right, left.
Now sing it,
"We're not going to hell
To run things around a wishing well."

**"Beyond The Visible Spectrum":** 
When I first saw you
There were guns in the river
Black birds of warning
Circling high above the marquee where
The blue notes of lovers
Mixed with the loneliness of others
Turned out breath into snowflakes
As we whispered in the gutters

We try to find the life at rainbow's end
It finds the end of us instead and everyone we love

When I come back now,
There are ads in the shadows
Diamonds in the skyline
You can't afford to look up at them
Or catch your reflection in someone else's mirror
Your voice is a music and I'm drowning in a silent land.

So if I dive over the railing, will I float up on all the
shining waves of glass?

**"Time's Arrow":**
The rain falls up, off the street.
The clocks turn back in retreat.
Footsteps fall off our feet.
I can see the tears crawling up your cheek.
It's turning back to pink.
The slap got pulled right off it
And we all fall back into bed again.

When you see what you've done,
You'll want to take it back
And do it all over again
But you can't and it's killing you

The doctor comes in off the street.
The stitch gets pulled out of the bleed.
Mothers jump down in their seats.
I can see time's arrow turning back to me,
The children getting light,
They'll disappear into a sigh
And we'll all rise like snowflakes in the sky
Tonight.

**"Unintended Long Term Effects":**
A paper crane, in a dirty rain, trying to
dry her wings.
The atom split between her lips in the final stage.
The chemicals dissolve and the family disappears.
She sees her life slip between the cracks in the
atomic age
Like a shot in the vein.

Can a pilot see the distant arc of history?
A thousand suns all burst at once in a blinding rage.
We need a drug, we need something to take the
dreams away
Because the dream of peace has gone to sleep in the
passing lane
Like a shot in the vein.

There's a black dog hanging by a string
In the flutter of a thousand paper wings.
You put your faith in the chemicals
But you fear the crash and you over react
And you hear the bomb going off
Then you see the flash and it's all out of synch.
When you take bitter pills
No sugar coat can mask the taste.

A thousand paper cranes
Left out in the rain.

**"Circuits Of Fever":**
You are my blanked out pages,
All the wasted spaces.
The old weapons vanished,
Spit blood at dawn, closed forever.
You're an ivory icon
Held in glass, captive.
You're a falling column,
Sharp little teeth kiss goodnight.
He was upside down and drifting in an
endless ocean of night.
The terror came in waves, each one
Pushing him further from the shore.
You are a fractured mirror,
Silver paper in the wind,
A desperate measure,
Sharp little circuits of fever.
I can feel the unslept hours,
See all the traces,
I can hear the ticking of clocks.
Old record running down,
You can't replace it
You get distracted by the sound.
He hears an ocean in the dial tone,
every night, after the sleeping pill goes down.
He wants to believe that he doesn't exist,
he's everywhere and he's nowhere all at once.

We'll fill the blanked out page.
We'll burn the traces.
We'll turn the unslept hours to days.
Old record running down,
We'll flip it over and sing the songs
we've never heard
Now.
Now.
Now.
Now.

**"Subway Funeral":**
Surprise, Surprise
Everything you know will flash before your eyes
And you're frozen with your hands against the glass
I'm seeing bright lights and I'm hearing sharpened knives
And I'm praying to a neon sign
As I wait for the seven line to take me where nobody goes

Surprise, Surprise
When a sparrow falls we go about our lives
We're busy counting grains of sand
I follow red birds and I follow lost words
And I'll follow you into the dark I long for the day

All the time I wait to see your face
(I thought I finally found you at 42nd and 5th)
All the time I wait to hear your voice
(I thought I finally found you at Grand Central Station)

All the time I wait to see your face
(I thought I finally found you at 46th and Bliss)
All the time I wait to hear your voice
(I thought I finally found you at Willets Point and Shea)

Every passing second I feel it slip away

All the days we used to watch them play
(Crowd: All these days we think...)
All the crowd would cheer and laugh and say:
(Crowd: All these things won't change.)
This will never end.

But every time I think I see a trace
They just close the door
And the subway funeral is underway:
The movie starts to play. I watch the flicker of the screen
For a single frame where I know you're still alive
But it fades into the grain and the subway funeral is everywhere.
Every night I see your face on a passing train
Every inch of track is a sacred path that I follow
Like it's the silver thread, hanging from the hem of heaven
And you're tied to the other end,
A needle that's been buried in the hay, But I'll find you, I'll find you.
Every night I take a ride
On a subway funeral that never ends
I never got to say goodbye
And that's a subway funeral that's in my heart.

**"Love Has Led Us Astray":**
They sold the old house,
Boarded up the rooms,
Just the way you wanted it.
They took your possessions
And gave them all away
With the ghost
You sing like the wind
In the tress at night
You think I'm asleep
But I'm awake for it.
Did you think you could hide
so easily
That no one ever hears you
when you say:
"love has led us astray,
Love won't let us leave."

First we're cut from the cloth
In imperfect shapes.
Then we're tied in a knot
And we're left to fray.
Can you even see
What you do to me
When you sleep in the leaves
And I can't wake you up
And you float like reed
In the riverbed?
If I dive too deep I can't
hear you
But everyone else does.

**"You Were The Cancer":**
It's the sigh of a building fall down
It's the world spinning us around
It's the slip of the surgeon's knife
And the darker crimes of common existence

It's a missile that's sleeping in the ground
It's a camera trying to photograph a sound
It's a case for the basic flaw:
The end of the film in the coming attractions

It's a cell that's spinning out of control
It's the light at the edge of a black hole,
The scream of an orchestra,
A total collapse or an over reaction

In your blood there is a sad sad song
Circulating through your nervous system
It's killing me and it's bringing you along.
You were the cancer in my life.
You were the cancer all the time.
You were the cancer and that's all you'll
ever be.

It's the comfort in a bathtub full of ice.
It's the promise of a peaceful afterlife
From the string of a violin that's wound
too tight
And it's gasping for oxygen.

It's a "signal" that's sent out "over the air"
At the speed of a thousand unheard prayers
It's the faith in the chemicals:
A shot in the dark, the size of a particle.

It's the blood from a neon sign,
Trying to light a way through your insides,
Make a map of the badlands
Watch your life slip through your hands-
They're not for shaking.
They're not for praying.
They're just for holding close everything
you love
In this fragile little dream.

I see you're coming down and no one
knows where.
I see you're coming down with out a prayer.