Falling
In our days of make believe
I was you and you were me
In the place where innocence remains
Now, life it seems has sucked you dry
If you're not me then who am I?
Living in a dream without a name
And I'm here
And I don't belong
And I'm here
And I'm letting go
Don't help me out
Cos I'm not falling
I'm not here
Not quite where you are
Don't look back
Cos I'm not falling
I'm not you anymore
Anymore...
By the way, I never thought
You'd become someone so absorbed
Realising all your damaged dreams
So, I'll take back what I left behind
You can keep the faith; it's yours not mine
Living in the lie that you despised
And I'm here
And I don't belong
And I'm here
And I'm letting go
Don't help me out
Cos I'm not falling
I'm not here
Not quite where you are
Don't look back
Cos I'm not falling
I'm not you anymore
Anymore...
Disappear
Once my heart was filled with stars
Now only space remains
I am the satellite
That slowly slipped away
We slowly slipped away
There’s a hole where my heart should be
The horizon has slipped from view
I sleep with the consequence
That turns the black sky blue
We turn the black sky blue
And the bruise on the wall of the heart will heal
The wounds on your hand will heal but not disappear
We were once immune to loss
The darkness undivided from light
A shift in the emphasis, turning this world to this
Tedium that colours the crime
We colour the crime
Once my heart was filled with stars
Now only sorrow remains
The silent unspoken, promises unbroken
Lie strung out, but faithful; unchanged
We are still the same
And the bruise on the wall of the heart will heal
The wounds on your hand will heal but not disappear
Falling Leaf
Metallic, transparent
You are a falling leaf
You’re tragic, you catch it
Crush it like you crushed me
Defeated, deleted
It’s all the same
Faceless, you’re shameless
You make for your escape
I am not what I was to you
A band aid on the wound
Once bitten, never forgiven
I see straight through you
How could I have denied
The obvious truth?
Cross me again and you will see
Just what love can do
You’re just a falling leaf
From the outrage to the numbness
Falling into space
I spiralled down, looked around
Someone has taken your place
Compromised and wild
The uncertainty
The damage you deny
You are nothing to me
You’re just a falling leaf
Falling down outside of me
Falling far from the tree
I owe you nothing
You’re hurt so you hurt back
Unintentionally
Your self-obsession, your predilection
I cannot forgive
So you’re defeated and deleted
The end of the game
I’m not shameless or blameless
I make for my escape
You’re just a falling leaf
Falling down outside of me
Falling far from the tree
I owe you nothing
Welcome to Paradise
They must have smiled in paradise
The day that you walked in
Those you left behind
Will never be the same again
In violent memory
Dead flowers by the road
What’s given is always taken
Now, we’re giving up the ghost
Familiar voices
Echo through these walls
The places that we used to know
I don’t really know at all
I have a photograph
I look at now and then
Reminders of the one I love
That I’ll never see again
Welcome to paradise
We mourn again
Rise up in paradise
We grieve again
Breakdown on the boundaries
Shivering in the night
Waking from a sleepless dream
Of the day I died inside
I remember holding
Your body close to mine
You were fading like a distant sun
You were fading from this life
The memory of your starlit eyes
As you reached into my soul
I took your life from you
And all the pleasures that you’ll never know
On the day they buried you
Darkness filled the sky
There is no coming back
For either you or I
Welcome to paradise
We mourn again
Rise up in paradise
We grieve again
We grieve again
We grieve again
We grieve again
Turning Circles
Something gotten hold of me
Some reason to believe
Someone’s watching me
Deep in the heart of nothing
Everything is meant to be
It’s in those half remembered dreams
And I’ve been wondering
Are we not what we see or seem?
I can’t feel this
I can’t feel this anymore
I don’t believe this
I don’t believe this anymore
It’s beautiful
We’re just wheels inside turning circles
This siren’s call
Turning tides like the hope inside us all
Can you remember those days?
When consequence would not stop you play?
Now we leave too easily
Paranoid about everything
We fall in line; targets our destiny
We aspire to life in magazines
Permission granted on occasion to breathe
We are no-one’s machine
I can’t feel this
I can’t feel this anymore
I don’t believe this
I won't take this anymore
It’s not beautiful
We’re not wheels inside turning circles
This liar’s call
Is a call to arms and the anger inside us all
We’re just wheels inside turning circles...
Dream State Reality
I am standing on stony ground
I can feel that the lines are down
Running through these cracks between
Here and now; dream state reality
I am certain I am not here
I was there but I disappeared
I was here but I’m not there now
I fuel fires and put them out
Looking for the cracks that will lead you back
Searching for a moment that you’ll never get back
Breaking the fall by falling some more
I’ll see you in the memory if I see you at all
Dream...
Killing time in the killing fields
Breathing light and the suffering
Beneath the veil and the plastic sheets
I can feel the awakening
All this time I’ve been waiting here
I walk with strangers who disappeared
Turn the lights down and turn me low
I feel the signal of the afterglow
Looking for the cracks that will lead you back
Searching for a moment that you’ll never get back
Breaking the fall by falling some more
I’ll see you in the memory if I see you at all
Dream...
Paper Wings
As the light shines through the cracks
Of every problem I’ve ever had
I wear the badge of vulnerability
No longer joking about these things
I’m standing in the shadow of the cross
The only measure of love is loss
Drunken angels point and smile
They count the cost of my denial
My faith wears only paper wings
I see nothing and everything
My love wears only paper wings
These walls no longer holding me
As the morning’s seeping through
Every problem I ever knew
I hold the key of inability
I will always wonder about these things
In the background shining down
The sun is trying to break out
There is no reason to believe
But save a moments thought for me
My faith wears only paper wings
I see nothing and everything
My love wears only paper wings
These walls no longer holding me
Paper Wings
In the End
Out along the darkening sky
The night is alive
We blame the satellites
We fall unrecognised
On the whispering winds
We turn and go
To the places we ran from
Returning to what damaged you
We play the game all too enthused
And in the end
It comes back to you
The price to pay
To ignore the truth
And in the end
You’ll be back for good
The price you pay
To be overlooked
Out upon the open fields
The moon will rise to reveal
The secret places we ran to
In waking vacant solitude
As the storm returns to frequent
The hollows of permanence
One day you will turn and run
Chasing down delirium
And in the end
It comes back to you
The price to pay
To ignore the truth
And in the end
You’ll be back for good
The price you pay
To be overlooked
Run from the shadows
The overwhelming sadness
Run from the pieces
That fractured your belief in
Freedom that’s breaking
the ties that you put your faith in
Down in the hollows
You are escaping now
You are escaping now
You are escaping now
Falling written by Hayley McCarthy. All other songs written by Steve Horne. (c) 2007-09 The Sanction/Hayley McCarthy/Steve Horne. Lyrics may not be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the respective owners.
