The Full Gamut -

Lying on our backs

On the cooling tarmac of a country road, we watched the stars

We watched them fall

And you made 36, I got as far as 49, before we laughed aloud

Raced back to the house again

With no idea at all…

… of our own position in infinity

Beware of the promises of songs

When you know the road ahead can be so long

As we watched the stars that night

We had no more idea of our plight

Than an earthworm beneath the tripod

Of the surveyor’s theodolite

I’m standing on a stage in Sweden in the rain

But only see the sunlight from your face

It illuminates the faces that smile back from the crowd

We create the time, but you create the place

And the curtains are closing on this act of the play

Tomorrow it seems will be a different kind of day

Stay with me a while!

— let me live this moment once or twice

Freeze Frame!

— Magnify!

— Do I see trouble in your eyes?

Have I just borne witness to the scars that you bear

From my own pursuit of dreams that perhaps we don’t share?

«Talk to me a while», I’d plead, knowing all was said and done

And that words alone can’t change things, Not when the fighting’s already begun

We had a Utopian postcode and a Nirvanan phone

But no-one was calling and we were left alone

Lying on our backs

On the cooling tarmac of a country road, we watched the stars

We watched them fall

Lying to ourselves

In the quiet slumber of a foreign town

We let it slide

With no idea at all…

… of our own position in infinity

Oh beware of the promises of songs

When the road ahead can be so long

For constructed poetic verse

No matter how well-rehearsed

Can’t fill in all the cavities

In the mouth that formed the curse

There’s a kind of comfort in the whirring of a fan

The dimmed studio lights and turning counters

The soundproofing a barrier to the hostile world outside

It can carry on without us

But out there it’s changing by the instant

And I’m in here on my own

I kid myself that you are in here with me

And you’re speaking through me now

That everything I do in here’s for «US» not just for me

But I never could quite explain how

The room is empty, or, the room is full

Inspiration comes and goes… but

In the end we became each others tea-break

Togetherness was just supposed

And inside I just never could see that

But out here it just seems so clear

We’ve had so much of trading insults

Oaths and vows are useless, like before

Petty thoughts and skeletons in closets

Are lying all across our wooden floor

And nothing we believe is sacred in our massive quest to hurt

Everything we’re good at is in question

Everything we’ve achieved is in the mire

And all we have is bile and sick, the ending just can’t come too quick

All that we’ve created has to die

We rip ourselves apart and fall asleep exhausted by the strain

This is not a rehearsal

This is not a drill

Madness rides tonight, banners flying

And it’s for real

They get stronger, while we get weaker… and no-one cares

I’m standing on a stage in England, blinded by the lights

Hard to even know you’re there

But inside I know the switches have been thrown in your mind

Just a question of when and where

And all of these years I took for granted

Come on back now and whisper in my ears…

«I never thought twice…

As blind as three mice»

But I never thought I’d be alone

It’s time to bring the curtain down

Time to say our final words

I can feel it in my bones

I can feel it in my water

Traffic jams and French landscape flash by

Lost in a blur of deja vu

Still, I can’t keep my fingers off

The self destruction buttons

And suddenly… it’s happening!

I’m sliding into the void I built with you

My lifetime ahead is slipping away

My fingers are clawing but nothing seems any use

What we set in gear has meshed at last

Question marks hover over our past

Like barrage balloons that wait over some

Defended… terrified city

But through it all, I Love You still

Yet only find spiteful, hurtful things to say

We take the vow, we make the dive

And head for the exit without even knowing the way

And the water turns to wine

And the wine turns into pills

And the pills turn into games

But the games are just cheap thrills

Beware of the promises of songs

When you know the road ahead can be so long

And all my anger cannot move

Or even seek to disprove

The need I have inside me

For the love I lost, which can never be removed

Lying on our backs

A Thousand miles apart

At whatever moment

With synchronised hearts

We’ll watch the stars

We’ll watch them fall

And from whatever country it’s still the same milky way

And I only can dream that maybe some day

We’ll meet again