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A LOWER DEEP LYRICS
"Parable of the Thorn" (2004)
1. Unnamed Thorn
2. A Brief Forever
3. Winter's Summons
4. New Dimension
5. Kingdom for Sale
6. Substance of Nothing
7. Are We Lost
8. Soliloquy
9. Free the Me
10. Veil of Secrets
1. Unnamed Thorn
Swirl the dust into my eyes
A taste of pain to let me know I'm still alive
If I'm to be the martyr
I'll meet my end with head held high
Infliction of the thorn
There was no garden of roses
Ever promised to you or me
Yet in spite of all our suffering the power grows
I was and am the chief of sinners
Exalted and brought so low
Now I'm more than a conqueror, I am made whole
Fades all that seemed true
Given into truth absolute
Three times I cried
Take this thorn from my side
Three times denied
Enough for you is my grace
I will not be spared sadness
I will know my share of sorrow
But I will know safe shelter through the storm
Feel with a glad heart
Joy in the midst of suffering
Three times...
The thorn remains unnamed
For every man a differing pain
The thorn remains unnamed
Suffice for all blessed grace
Three times...
2. A Brief Forever
I saw you there by the fire
A shape of light, so fair, all in white
I said my love to the wind
My solemn pray somehow you would hear
But in floated in my mind
Drowning with all the things I never said
I feel so alone now that you are gone
Time it seems to stand still
Slow the hours that I live
Remember when you said this will be forever
Forever seemed a time so brief
Swept away with the rain
Beauty fades from my eyes
Dark the days and cold the nights have turned
How long my love have you been gone
How long since I held you in my arms
Sometimes it seems like your still here
Other times as a million years
I fell so alone...
Can you still hear me from paradise the other side
All I want is to join you forever and ever
Remember when you said this will be forever...
3. Winter's Summons
Winter's voice is calling out my name
Summons with cold promises
Leading me on by frozen candlelight
Gathering to sight a numb dull pale white
Walking through this forest in my mind
Browning leaves cruching under foot
Shadowed vale filled with abandoned still life
Barren trees serving always to remind me
Into a granite hue I wake
Hopeful for the Spring
A long day yet have I to wait
Until warmth's dawning
Sleep is coming for the dreaming
Ever dimming, old old man
Now I've come to the end of days
An old friend guides me home
At last I'll find a place to rest
In warmth's dawning
Winter's calling for the graying
Ever fading aging man
4. New Dimension
Flowers gentely lain upon the headstone
A memory's fallen tears
All our lost loves will be resurrected
Ghosts are those familiar friends calling
New Dimension
Shedding flesh and bone
Stripped of this mortal coil
Spirits soaring
Rain cascades down in sheets of grey
Skies of blue above heard laughing
Reconcile the day, reconcile the day
Into a state of transition, mystery will reign
Rising above the mudance, nothing will be the same
New Dimension...
Recall the pleasant sent of Spring
Warm hands were holding you
Born into a new so brand new
Tomorrow's promise I hear it singing
New Dimension...
5. Kingdom for Sale
I climb these heights only to look down
All I see laid out before me is crumbling down
Can you see what my eyes see
All these fields once so green
Now a tangle of decayed
Twisted trees and rotting vine
Here's a kingdom for sale
Nothing left only a shell
Welcome to the highest bid
Empire in ruins
As I walk across this barren wasteland
All I see flowing behind me marks my shame
Can you see...
Here's a kingdom for sale...
Abandon the courtyard unman the keep
Let all the banners wave in defeat
Sound the horn for the death of the king
Light the pyre
Here's a kingdom for sale ...
6. Substance of Nothing
Staring out into the abyss
Holding tight to my nothing
There is nothing here to hold
Walking out into the void
I see nothing at all
No colors, no light
Is this life?
Then a darkness covers the land
Formless shapes, inaudible sounds
Tugging hands are pulling me down
I'm falling so deep into a sea of despair
The nothing blinds me to what could be real
Without reason can there be truth
What's real perception hides
To touch, the senses lie
Here is life
Thoughts flashing before my eyes
In streams of consciousness
Staring out into the void
Falling so deep into depair
Refusing to see what's real
Holding tight to my nothingness
There is little in life worth saving
So I pull it close, and hold it tight
And sleep with my nothing near
Staring out into the void...
7. Are We Lost
There is so much more here than meets the eye
All we've built is sand slipping through calloused hands
Now time to wake at last and realize
We will reap the seed we've sown
Can we still find some hope inside
There is a cancer spreading out across the land
Blackened taint echoes the deepest sin
Soul decays as the spirt slowly fades
Is it too late to be saved
Can we still find some hope inside... or
Are we lost
Is it too late to be saved
Can we still find some hope inside... or
Are we lost
8. Soliloquy
Shallow graves in the morning dew
A sea of souls denied their youth
Actor leaves the stage
No one heard what he had to say
Standing at an unmarked tomb
Those who lived were oh so few
Clarity of vision fades
Tragedies make the best of plays
In dark places terror thickens
Unseen fears take my strength away
Cold and haunting familiar voices
I hear their blame for living on
Moonlight, stars shine on this fool's tale
A thousand deaths I have died
All the brave knew but one
Still I'm standing I go on living
Carrying with me constant shame
Moonlight, stars shine on this fool's tale
Tragically the hero in the end must die
Life is a play and I play the fool
I am the author's pen
Predistined is my end
Moonlight, stars shine on this fool's tale
9. Free the Me
There is a place where I go
Hidden so very far from sight
Deep inside my mind
A tiny room is tucked away
No one finds me
I'm a stranger even to myself
Sitting here lost so deep in thought
A loner alone within my head
Detached and hollow
I escape into a distant past
In wish and fantasy
I live the life I wanted most
I walk the line between love and hate
The mirror smiles unrecognized
Free the me
Who will dry my tears
Who will heal my wounds
Who will even try to understand why
I walk the line...
Free the me
10. Veil of Secrets
See the smile of a child
Hear the cries of a mother
Feel the wind swirl
And wonder from where it comes
Made in God's image
And given dominion
Distinguished by reason
And still the doubts remain
Open my eyes, uncloud my mind
Pieces of the puzzle
Appear to be missing
Seems illdefined
But the picture incomplete
So still there are questions
Never to be answered
When nothing is certain
Faith is all we have
Take me into the unknown
Teach me and I will learn
What for so long seem a fairytale
Now shines from a golden face
Veil of Secrets like a curtain torn away
Tangible is made obselete
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