I'm burning up I'm burning up Tell her she's a spark of fire And she'll glow Her heart will be the sound of beating Hands against drums As water rushes through her ears You'll feel the pounding on the floor Perfect with the rhythm Of galloping horses Of the quaking earth Her eyes will burn with sunlight As the universe turns Your words, flooded with colors Take shape and find soul For when you say, "It's possible" She'll know I can see now you've been living in a crazy fantasy Your mermaids are just whores and your pirate's not free I've been waiting too long for you to call out my name You want the ocean to burn? I'll show you a flame...

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No one can look at me now With a face of molten rock, not the beauty I once was No one will understand now It's too much of a shock what a third-degree burn does This changes everything No more underwater dancing No more oil to soothe the sting This ends my days of enchanting (All I have left is a voice to sing) Fire, fire burning bright Hear the wish I wish tonight Take my Black and take my White And kill them both with your sunlight This is the price I had to pay for that taste of passion play To let all evil turn away and keep misfortune well at bay Yes I know that you were heartless Still I would not want to hurt you Even if there was occasion For your agony would pass Now I shield my face in darkness There is no one left to turn to But the mask of this abrasion In a room with one-way glass Rain, rain go away I'm longing for a clearer day So I can burst into flames! Fire, fire burning bright In the darkness, in the light Watch me gaze into the sky And mock its tearful imagery

Something in the air has got me confused I know you see perfectly well that I've been abused But the black of your hair and the blue of your eyes reminds me... We are the disenchanted, we've been torn, we've been used That's why it's clear that our lives have been fatefully fused Now the light of the stars that conceives our disguise, it blinds me... Years ago I fell Now I am bound by a spell Write it out, and I'll sing aloud And we'll tear inhibitions down And they'll be the best audience around 'Cause we'll make them feel... I was so close to abandoning this vision 'Til you gave me a breath to make an eminent decision Now I'm awaiting the curtain call so we can start the show It's a good thing you and I both have excellent ambition Never thought I'd find a savior in this musical magician Dark, handsome, and tall You make it easier to let go I fooled myself by thinking I could just surrender Now I must replace these dull shadows with shiny dark splendor Write it out and I'll sing aloud And we'll tear inhibitions down And they'll be the best audience around 'Cause we'll make them feel like dancing Let it out! Come on, make me proud! And we'll tear all their buildings down And we'll be the ones who will make 'em drown In their own tears He can't smell the smoke See my face in the mirror Hear the beating of the drums Take his senses, make them clearer Find his soul and bring it nearer (And while we are pretending) Take my doubts and my fears Give me a reason to sing In your mind, I am so intoxicating In your dreams, I fascinate Make me a star, we'll be a team So we can swim in this dream

Suddenly I know what it feels like to be delusional A canvas of white painted colorful Now I catch the lingering scent of my betrayal A vibrant world turned back to greyscale I would rather be cursed forever as long as you're free I wanted to be seen among the stars But when I imagine you behind the bars I would choose to be curse forever as long as you're free There's a voice inside my head Telling me that I'm alive And I want to believe that it's true But sometimes I feel That I'm not even real Just a voice in someone's head That they never listen to

Blackbird, you are worth more than to be hidden there The night is gone and you are still dreaming Blackbird, you may be broken but you're still alive Don't wait for daylight to revive your senses At night I am chaos Wings without bodies fluttering around with no place to land And these letters the only bones to hold them together Or else I would fall to pieces Collapsing in the darkness My muse fighting with my dreams and winning And a subtle voice wondering when... When will I see them again? At home I am madness Particles of dust scattered in all directions Overlapping undercurrents Waves snapping Tensions bursting Lands collapsing Infinite meadows so, so thirsty Reaching out with millions of tentacles And grasping nothing Just brushing past the imaginary letters And drowning out the soft, dreamy voices Broken and fading Until the darkness is gone And the sun has risen And there is nothing to be done Now the letters come Asking if I've lost or if I've won You may be a falling star Beautiful and bright yet so, so far See the love you've caged within your own soul Let it out, and feed your bones Light it up Light it up Light it up Light it up But the muse is silent The dream's asleep And the only thing left is a hazy meadow Screaming "Feed your bones" So, so hungry And a subtle voice wondering how... How am I going to make it to the other side? Shake it up, shake it up Keep rattling the cages And wake it up, wake it up Mermaids in the sky Oh, raise it up! Raise it up! See the clouds around us We're shaking our bones now Taking back our thrones In the stratospheric zone Melody, you are not alone Oh, Blackbird Don't be afraid to break out of your cell (spell)

I look into a mirror and I see my spirit break Voices reach my ears, their breath upon me 'til I wake And they say "Why do you hide in the night?" Clouds forming above me as I'm lying on the sand You may never love me, but I've begun to understand I've been a star, I've been a dove, I've spent my life swimming to land But this is not what I had planned... Digging deeper into mantel as a burning coal Stir you from the inside somehow to ignite your soul I wonder why did I hide from the light all this time? Words becoming clearer and my head's starting to ache Thunder drawing nearer warning of an earthquake And I say: What would become of me if I broke my own spell? Would I wake from this dream I have come to love so well? Will I be in paradise or descend into hell? Will I be standing where I fell? I have been shaken, I have been torn I have been burned and I have been worn I sunk into darkness and I have mourned my friend Now in this storm, I am born again Out of the ashes, out of the dust No longer a siren driven by lust Now I am a firebird calling your name Lighting the sky up in flames! I am an ocean, yet I'm burning up inside Always in motion, yet you are always still I cannot stir you and believe me I have tried I want you to love me, yet I know you never will You cannot see and you cannot smell You'll never be free and I'm bound by a spell But now I'm an ocean that's risen too high A bird who has finally learned how to fly I am the lightning piercing the sky! I am the source of the glass in your eye! And I say: In my mind, you are so intoxicating In my dreams, YOU FASCINATE But in my world, you're just a dream I am real and I am free

In the shadows of a past life All the mysteries in my heart tell me to find you in the dark But all these shadows blur my visions And I'm fading in the dark I cannot see you as I feel you in my heart Somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of my brain Buried in the cracks where I am terminally insane Where all sense of the center is supposed to be maintained And yet chaos reigns Fills me, drains me And I'm not even me, I'm just a particle of energy Something less than sensory, only just a memory Creator and creation existing in synergy The forces of nature, in the past and in the future And us humans just minutia Whether we win or lose We are nothing more than atoms with a pointless point of view I can't see you, I can't see you In the dark, in the dark And I'm alone now I can't see you, I can't see you In the dark, in the dark And I'm alone now What if all we see is a figment of imagination? Accidental vibrations - a blooper of creation And we're all just frustratingly reaching toward stagnation But this stimulation claims us And we have to see, have to be Have to believe in something greater than damnation Or simplistic formations We want to be eternal, yet we hate to just be Carnal burning dust and ashes Gases in the past and in the future huge masses No! We want a sense of hopefulness and purpose in this world That's why sometimes we pray to ourselves and hope somebody heard Believing in the word and basking in the brilliance Of our own special existence (even if it's just coincidence) Either we ask for deliverance Or even if we try not to be affected by this influence We want our impending doom to have some significance To make some sense Not simply to be floating in a never-ending room Can you hear me, can you feel me In the dark in the dark You're not alone now Can you hear me, can you feel me In the dark, in the dark You're not alone now (you're not alone) Now I'm drifting in a wasteland, deep in space And I'm faceless and hating every moment of this race To the top of the mountain, to the end of the line We don't need to win to be a part of the Divine We can shine every day in the words that we say In the music we play and the gifts we give away We're all going up in flames in a moment anyway Burning up inside 'til the end of our days Try not to hide, you can't escape it so embrace it Believe in the grace that you exhibit and face your fears What else are we here for but to live as many years as our love is long? So sing your song and dance your dance Find passion and compassion in beauty and romance Because we might not have another chance To be a piece of the puzzle This is our mission: to envision a collision of existence and cognition No division, just a decision to let go and be One Heart One Soul under the Sun, and part of the Earth Life to Death - until Birth When we can rise out of the ashes and start singing and screaming So we can love and be loved And never stop dreaming I can't see you, but I can hear you In the dark, in the dark I'm not alone now I can't see you, but I can feel you In the dark, in the dark I'm not alone now Yes, I can hear you and I can feel you In the dark, in the dark We're not alone now In these shadows all my visions Come to life within a spark Of all the voices of these lovers in the dark