Soulsavers: Broken
(offical lyrics as posted on http://myspace.com/soulsavers)
copyright 2004 Beggar's Banquet

death bells

death bells are ringing lord
ringing in my ears
death bells keep ringing ringing
baby can't you hear

no one to crawl one thousand hours
no one at all to grow my graveyard flower
and this useless drift is a drag
no medicine and no remedies
and it may be my blood is cursed
but i'm breathing under my brother's dirt

angels are singing lord
singing in my ears
angels keep singing singing
baby can't you hear

unbalanced pieces

the sky is red, clouds are grey and copper moon
one day i'll tell you
the threats are veiled, snowblind at first
unfurl the sails
for heavens blue or dark uncertain waters

gone- now carry on through violent seasons
i call you mother, mother, mother, in vain
absent chain
the twilights bleeding
and the playing board has two unbalanced pieces

no word is said, castle grey and sunday soon
one day i'll kill you
the raining sheets batter the ground
unroll the streets
and walk along on high uncertain wires

gone- now carry on through seasick seasons
i'm crawling mother, mother, mother, in vain
absent frame
the twilights kneeling
and the chessboard still has two unbalanced pieces

all the way down

warm morning breeze seems to whisper your name
stoned in the sunlight i know it's a shame
fading away in the ..crystalline dawn
upon six white horses the ..carriage is drawn
all the way down
seems like i can't come up no ..more
won't be happy again
cold morning stars seem to ..shimmer unknown
the tide takes you under, you'..re rolling alone
follow the tune that the siren would sing
follow the moon do you find anything
all the way down
pardon me for praying hard
for crying out loud
warm morning breeze seems to whisper your name
stoned in the sunlight i know it's a shame
drifting away in the crystalline dawn
upon six white horses the carriage is drawn
seems like i can't come up no more
won't be happy again
all the way down

shadows fall

i see circles of gold in spite of my eyes
when darkness falls from above
stay under me my love
i see circles of gold fading to black
until the heavens have died
you'll be the thorn in my side

come so coldly awake
where the light wouldn't go
come only to drift downward slow

in the dying light is a dream beyond time
one as impossible
as it is beautiful
now the ghost in the mirror twists this way and that
setting the thread to fray
in such a solitary way
and the archangel sighs, feeding his blues
still i am loathe to gather
all of these bones together

come so coldly awake
where the light wouldn't go
come only to drift downward slow
on the way to the gate
walk a merciful mile
while lying in wait a serpent coils

here's where the bent and the wretched were born
here's where the path was erased in the storm

i see circles of gold burned off the sun
when shadows fall from above
stay close to me my love

can't catch the train

wait, wait the race has been numbered
so soon to go where the horses have gone
lay down your head, like a baby to slumber
can't make it home anymore, oh no
can't catch the train

with sorrows to suffer unknown
drawing the stars to a close

as sure as the shovel is blind, deaf and digging
one day you're hung at the end of the rope
hat in your hand, near the station just begging
don't have the fare anymore, oh no
can't catch the train

calling from beyond the pale
shipwrecked, the dancers will ..crawl

sing, sing for the new day ..appearing
give us one more for the ..memories you lost
sing for the night
and how quickly it's nearing
can't make it home anymore, ..oh no
can't catch the train

pharoah's chariot

to thank you jealous heart i ..put you in the ground
the driver rides the rain
the trumpeter he sounds
as blood is to the root, is ..silver to the crown
take it as you may
my love has gone away

then it all comes to nothing, ..then it all comes to nothing

to break you jealous heart i build to tear it down
the timber from the walls
the make up from the clown
and dirt is to the grave as water to the drowned
so long to my slave
my wheel's beneath the waves

then it all comes to nothing, then it all comes to nothing

praying ground

i'm not feeling any pain but i know that it's real
i never see the color of the day
in the darkness i kneel
praying for sleep
praying that it will come easy
but there's something else
i see it miles away

don't know what time of year it is
i can't remember the fall
yet all my strange and simple ..games
played out on top of a wall
praying for sleep
praying for something so easy
if only the moon
would've left me alone

rolling sky

is that somebody calling?
perhaps my love so long ..forgotten
now the snake wrapped around ..my arm
has bared its teeth
has done its harm

rain rolling sky
sing a broken lullabye
and the rose, paint it red
because my love
it isn't dead
isn't dead

who has left the water ..running?
in suicidal waves it's coming
this sleepwalking prayer of ..mine
is locked away
its done its time

dry the weeping eye
send a crippled valentine
because the noise in my head
says my love it isn't dead
isn't dead