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Portal – Lights

(sweet guitar solo)
In the throes of the ruby red river that flows through the darkening
concrete devouring ghosts that float by, I'm with them.
Up in the current and taken in whole, I've been struggling,
strangling, others in tow. Have my eyes gone missing?

Imagining sequences, playing back visions by stereo air and fragmenting
emissions, I'm lost and found in ---.
The loneliest thing in the shape of a fist that I wish I could bring
into this bitter abyss is my petrified heart, still pounding.

Out on the balcony, reaching out to design this epiphany and what the
sidewalks will do. Am I just ---?
In the processes, it's the means to the end, it's the glass-bottomed vessel
and the depths that extends through the spans between us

If I could, I'd cut through the cables and cords, but I'd never be
able -- my life's at the table with yours, immortal.
Nothing is sacred and nothing is sure anymore, except all that you are
and stand for got me toward your portal.

Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
Oooh-ooh-ooooh!
Oooh-ooh.
Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
Your portal (Oooh-ooh-ooooh!)
Your portal (Oooh-ooh.)

Running with the boys (Lights)

We were kind of feral, wicked little machines.
Captains and cavalries, forming empires in the shade of the trees.
Without hesitation, kings of the forest town, holding the ocean down.
We were half this heavy and twice this loud.

So turn up the noise!
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys, your hand in mine
Singing every song
Loving every line 'til the night is gone
Just like the old times! [x2]

It was what you made it
We had our friends around.
All the images and sounds, superimposed into all the backgrounds
We used to be clumsy, lost in a thousand ways
Captivated by the craze
Those were -- hands down! -- my favorite days

So turn up the noise!
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys, your hand in mine
Singing every song
Loving every line 'til the night is gone
Just like the old times! [x3]

Suspicion rose in our heads. It was only underneath the beds.
Saline eyes didn't have to hide. They were always open way too wide!

So turn up the noise.
Dressed to the nines
Running with the boys! Your hand in mine!
Singing every song
Loving every line 'til the night is gone
Just like the old times! [x2]

Just like the old times! [x4]
Just like the old times.

Up we go (Lights)

Here in a familiar place,
we've got our heads down
and then we pretend it's cause the night is dark;
we're running out of space for us to run around,
but it's a dead end and money's tight and
it's been a long time of this.
Something has got to give.

Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
From down this low, it's only on we go (on we go)
Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
From down this low, it's only up we go (up we go)

Let's get on another flight!
Maybe set out to sea --
kick it up and shake our fists on it,
'cause death is harder to come by than it is to breathe
when you gotta make or break for it
'cause it's been a long time of this.
Something has got to give!

Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
From down this low, it's only on we go (on we go)
Everyone here is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
From down this low, it's only up we go (up we go)

Nothing gives easy.
Easy gives nothing.
I'm just trying to keep it from coming in
Dawn is bound to break
when the night is done
Always darker days before brighter ones

Everyone is ready to go. It's been a hard year with nothing to show.
From down this low, it's on we go (on we go)
Everyone is ready to go. It's been a hard year and I only know
From down this low, it's up we go (up we go)

Same sea (Lights)

(not sure about these)
Going the distance every occasion
Headed for somewhere out of the way
Movin' and shakin' every persuasion keeping us out there caught in the
waves

Try to wander in the deeep
Just waiting for the tides to meet

And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans out of the
hands of safety, from the shallows to the deepest end, places we'd break
and bend, you're the one in it with me

No matter how far we get, oceans we are in still connect
and when the currents circle back again, they'll carry us with them to the
arms of the same sea
(confusing synth solo follows)

Isn't all just part of the nature? Piece of the business? Part of the
view?
Physical labor, human behavior -- it's an illusion I'm passing
through

No places to stand or set my feet
Just waiting for the ends to meet

And when the currents take us out again to opposite oceans out of the
hands of safety; From the solace to the deepest end, places we'd break
and then you're the one that (is) with me

No matter how far we get, oceans we are and still connect
and when the currents then go back again, to carry us with them to the
arms of the same sea
(confusing synth solo follows)

The tides we carried in
The lakes that take us out
They come around again and bring me back to you
and when the currents then go back again, to carry us with them to the
arms of the same sea

Speeding (Lights)

(sweet synth solo follows)

One by one, out the door.
Wanted you. She wanted you more.
It's OK. It's okay.
I don't mind -- moving on.
Don't wait up. I'm already gone.
Can't stay still! Can't stay still.

The world in the rear view mirror doesn't matter
I won't be coming back here after

Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on.
Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speeding 'cause it feels good. 'Cause it feels good.

Window down to feel the night
Whatever I touch, I can make mine
It's enough. It's enough.
I say go. I'm the one.
You won't see me stopping for anyone.
Can't stay still. Can't stay still!

The world in the rear view mirror doesn't shake me!
I haven't looked back there maybe

Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on.
Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speeding 'cause it feels good.

Lines that line the city guiding all the residents,
from where I am sitting, I can see the evidence
Lines that line the city guiding all the residents,
from where I am sitting, I can see the evidence

'Cause I am
Cause I am
Speeding 'cause it feels good to be moving on
Sleep is for the weary. I'm not slowing down
And when the record is done, I'll put another one on
Speeding 'cause it feels good. 'Cause it feels good.
'Cause it feels good. [x8]

Muscle memory (Lights)

After having spent a fast year
waiting for the next time i can get you close
I grew used to being back here
like a chorus and rhyme, soldier at his post

You call and I respond, the sparrow and the song
I miss you when you're gone

When I am alone, I see you in the dark
I talk into the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night
felt you in the low light
noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory

Again, off into the next fall,
I am on the back steps trying to let you in
See you standing in the front hall
Maybe this is madness underneath my skin?

Guess love is the response
of the body -- it haunts
and we do what it wants

When I am alone, I see you in the dark
I'm talking to the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night
(I) felt you in the low light
noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory
I feel you endlessly
Muscle memory

When you feel the chains of a thousand words
and I speak your name like I know you heard,
I could feel you there.
I could hear you move.
And it moves me too.

When I'm playing games. When I'm drinking wine
and I see your glass sitting next to mine,
I could feel you there when you're not at home
like I'm not alone

When I'm alone, I see you in the dark
I'm talking to the empty like you were with me
Started on a cold night
(I) felt you in the low light
noticing the reflex taking over me
I see you when I reach
Muscle memory
I feel you endlessly
Muscle memory

Oil and Water (Lights)

Gone when you get stuck
Sleeping when you wake up
Lover on the other coast
Off to the races
headed other places
Chasing a familiar ghost

No one said it would be this hard. How could I know?
Why do we always get so far before we let go?

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away -- wish I could make you stay!

Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
Oil and water
Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
Oil and water

Cycle seasons
Watching you leaving
Thinking I could change the rules
Rocks on the ocean, wheels in motion,
Wishing is the game of fools

No one said it would be this hard. How could I know?
Why do we always get so far before we let go?

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away  -- wish I could make you stay!

Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
Oil and water
Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
Oil and water

Kicking, screaming, softly speaking -- near our parting ways
We'll go under oil and water. Are we separate?
Kicking, screaming, softly speaking -- near our parting ways
We'll go under oil and water. Are we separate?

And we separate
Nothing is the same forever
See you drive away -- wish I could make you stay!

Oooh-ooh-ooooh-oh
Oil and water
[x4]

Slow Down (Lights)

In the garden, with the wild,
I could feel you like a child
Seeing shadows in the room
Like a fall and a rise of the yearn in the wise
Playing dead with the moon
Chasing you

When I was young, you were only a ghost
Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I understand
If I can't keep you, nobody can!

Slow down. Slow down!

In the speed of the traffic, of the rush in the rapids
where the ends come and meet
I will know you by the taste from the moment we awake
like the sour and the sweet
and you can see

When I was young, you were only a ghost
Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I understand
If I can't keep you, nobody can!
(softly)

Slow down. Slow down!
Slow do-own.

Oooh-oooh-ooh-oooh, ooh-ooh-oooooooh? [x2]

When I was young, you were only a ghost
Taking no friends. Leaving me alone
When we are gone, tell me: where do we go so fast?
Taking my cheeks in the palm of your hand
Making me weak when I understand
If I can't keep you, nobody can!
(softly)

Don’t go home without me (Lights)

This is the song I will sing to you
when you're old and tired.
I will sing it to remind you
that I'm old beside you.

And if you're tired of hearing my voice,
I'm gonna sing it to you anyway.
Cause I know that if we made it this far,
those differences have been put away.

And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
So alone I would be...
In a world that you're not near,
don't go home without me!

Without me

So if our bodies get ugly
and our hearts stop beating,
Our house is crumbling underneath
and my kids start leaving,
I hope you know I appreciated
you in every possible way
All of the little things that you did,
they got me through the hardest days!

And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
So alone I would be...
In a world that you're not near,
don't go home without me!

You know that I'll be hangin' around
Every mighty mile (?)
And when you call me, I'll be right down,
and we'll go out in style.

In style!

And I'll sing, oh! It's amazing that you're here!
So alone I would be...
In a world that you're not near,
don't go home without me!
[x4]

Child (Lights)

What is this about?
Where is everybody going?
What am I doing here?
Can't separate what I really need to know
and what I just want to hear

Maybe I'm alone
Maybe everybody's lost too?
Looking for a way out?
Maybe, I don't know, maybe I don't even want to
just don't want to be let down

There is no sureness
I kind of just stumble along
There must be purpose in trying to keep on

But what do I know? I'm a child!
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time!
It's never as long as you wish it was!
Oh-oh-oh!
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does.

And I always feel like I did when I was younger
Can't talk sense into me
How do you decide when to know or how to wonder?
Or how to just get free?

There's no certainty
I kind of just stumble along
Doesn't bother me
I'm trying to keep on

What do I know? I'm a child!
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time!
It's never as long as you wish it was!
Oh-oh-oh!
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does

I've seen both sides of the door
I'm not a child anymore
but I can stand in it the way I did when I was a kid

Oh, what do I know? I'm a child!
Just trying to talk like a mother does
Seeing life come and go all the time!
It's never as long as you wish it was!
Oh-oh-oh!
Maybe I'm still trying to see like a child does