All songs copyright Glenn Bernardis.
Dreaming at the stir of the first timid step
Following the cairns to the horizon
Draw aside the curtain as pathways intersect
Awaken to the hunter’s moon rising
Over dunes and water endless waves of sand
The wake cuts the mirror of sensation
A compass of morality uncovered and unplanned
Strike out for an inner constellation
Alone unknown
Chasing the cadence of each narcotic stride
Inspiring passion to depart
Seize the illusions from the corner of my eye
Time lets slip an arrow through my heart
Moving still earning the will to fly
Encircling the seasons celestial montage
Anchored by a true orientation
Pirated by choices sailing the mirage
Complete the circuit speak the incantation
Released at peace
Swayed by surrender to a universe in tune
Chasm connected through the veil
Unravel threads of reality’s cocoon
Emerge to chart another trail
Moving still earning the will to fly
Face to face not eye to eye
Out of reach and out of time
A boundary crossed sunken cost
By my own hand a victimless crime
Dark the stars dark the moon Fevered brow a hidden room
A stepping stone to parts unknown The leap of faith is coming soon
Getting on and getting by in the cracks of these broken times
Feeling something feeling anything but some peace of mind
Fearful symmetry tonight bend the light
The warning sounds high time to walk away
Life sentence bound a martyr led astray
Another chance another song and dance
Live to sing another day
Let the night suppress her subtle voice
Seven fleeting stages of existential choice
Being vogue don’t make it right bend the light
They don’t know what they don’t know
They can’t see what they can’t see
They can’t do what they can’t do
They can’t be what they can’t be
They can’t push who they can’t push
They can’t steal what they can’t steal
They can’t love who they can’t love
They can’t feel what they can’t feel
Bear the torch burning strong and clear
The sleep of reason dawn is drawing near
Zero sum time to cut and run
The master stroke leaves nothing left to fear
Visions of alterity in a fool’s paradise
Freedom reaped and torn from brutal sacrifice
The dues are paid in spite
Social solitaire insight
Risk it all shining bright bend the light
Far from the familiar shore the wounded hare leaps high
Cast within the amber cell of bartered time
Exiled to the night communing in first light
Drive away the serpents in their minds
Not for the first time kneeling at the tomb
Autumn paths and ancient walls where foxglove blooms
Foundation overgrown a row of weathered stones
Face to face the journey will resume
Break the deal and break away
Slay the beast that guards the gateway
Arc of the story shades of glory
Dare to speak the words that set you free
Walk with me unto the edge the clarity of fear
Manifest delusion know darkness here
For in the past we dwell creating our own hell
Free them from the chains that they revere
A parting glass an empty hall
A taste of venom who of us will fall
Share your fire with all the world wade into the flood
Conviction burning at the stake dragged through the mud
Cocksure fools cry out at wise men full of doubt
The tongue that cuts without spilling blood
Abandoning cold certainty baneful as a lie
Once in a lifetime the last goodbye
Anon the night will come so fare thee well my son
Alone again living merely to die
Now is the right time the way is clear
Smile in the sunshine dry your tears
A little slice of here and now
Face the music take a bow
Fire in the night time come sing with me
Fight in the front line choice is never free
Get on up to higher ground
Lost time is never found
Now is the answer get out of your own way
Chaos dancer to whatever song you want to play
Dance the tipping point ballet
Don’t let the moment steal away
Now is the right time and fate is blind
Now is your lifetime and it’s time to make up your mind
Just pick up that wake up call
Step outside a free for all
For the lessons which we learn
Light the fire in which we burn
Illumination filters through
Smoke and mirrors clearer view
Sometimes I fall sometimes I rise
All at once everywhere
In expectation wandering still
No destination the way is the will
Sing the dream time
Persistent illusion let go the line
Welcome seclusion colors shine
Lend a lovely light
The higher we circle the smaller we seem
Trade youth for an answer sight unseen
Through golden seams
They said you’ve got to get ahead
Then sign you up to draw a blank
Another day, another dogma to decry
Laughing all the way to the bank
Sold like a whore to the company store
You fight to keep that monkey on your back
Ain’t no doubt about that Got to feed the rat
They’re living large with their legal entourage
Golden parachute and trophy wife
Lords of the manor immune to all the clamor
Gambling with your money and your life
Jump to the call like lemmings to the mall
Singing that the bling is where it’s at
Ain’t no doubt about that. Got to feed the rat
Join us in the perfect crime all you need’s a promise and a pen
A man can make real money but money makes us counterfeit men
Steal it then bury it, screw the proletariat
The market’s free but not self-esteem
The bird in the hand is all that they can understand
So bite the hand that’s feeding this machine
Too big to fail but everything’s for sale
You’ve got to spill some blood to trim the fat
Ain’t no doubt about that Got to feed the rat
Wolves in the stable with scraps from master’s table
It’s all legal tender if you’re just a first offender
You know this ride will never stop one day you’re going to be on top
Worship at the gold façade because money is a vengeful god
Cut me with a smile and then just walk away
I stop and wonder if I’ve said all I’ve got to say
Waiting to cast the first stone
Full of emptiness I’ve never known
Hiding away but still I feel so alone
And you’re gone
Turn my head away and claim the pain is gone
Wasted days forsaken and withdrawn
Soothing words a distant stare
Blood in the water the signs were everywhere
I’m not afraid to say I’m feeling scared
And you’re gone
Tell it like it is only the lonely survive
Knowing who to blame the strain is hard to hide
By a kiss betrayed lead me on
The curtain falls the end has come
Just one last time before the denouement
And you’re gone
Off the map again here we belong my friend
Shadows of us all fade to sunset’s call
Breathless we climb transcend the timberline
Exiled ecstasy fluid symmetry
Pieces made whole
Permeable soul
Empty no more
Lose sight of the shore
Wash away my pain, sacrifice my name
Solitary stronger wind and rain (forever changed)
Weave the path you live wild and free
Walk with me
So much left to see
Trek the open sky descry dragonfly
The moment finds the man a snowflake melts in our hand
Welcome me home
Lessons learned in leaf and stone
Without and within
Born to the wind
Oh symphony of night
Shed this weary light
Answers arise
Opalescent eyes
Warm yourself at the fire that one day takes us all
Essence awakened infinite and small
Roots in the ground the soil a breath away
Lay your burden down at the temple of the day
Alone no disguise
Avoid my eyes
Life’s a surprise
When you see
Queen of denial with a venomous bite
Little miss representation on the line tonight
Too good to be real take a good long look
It’s just a flashy cover for a trashy book
Cult of personality an accident of birth
Got to milk that sacred cow for everything she’s worth
Rebel without a clue red flags on the phone
A hindsight reflection of the status quo
Naked we’re born and naked we die
How many times to compromise?
Panic in your eyes
No disguise
Fill that hole loud and unclear
A sycophantic echo is all the suckers need to hear
A bottom feeder frenzy in your shallow little sea
Because flattery gets you everywhere you want to be
The drama that you sow breeds the platitudes you reap
A penny on a bar room floor two-faced and cheap
Stuck to our shoes and tracked through our lives
A limousine to hell your entitlement can drive
Spirit out of tune
Waves on a darkened pool
Twilight reflections burn lonely and cool
Take me one final time
Absent life
Languid in fading light
No longer fear the quiescence of night
Turn away too tired to cry
Ponder the soft distant heartbeat of thunder
Penitence gently corroding the day
Under the surface shadows of sharpness
Innocence numbly bleeding away
And another day slips away
Love has flown
Wasted away no shame to atone
This nightmare begins to feel like it’s home
No will no hope
Silently scarred sedate violation
Abide the distressed caress unaware
Soothing abyss gazing back like a lover
Unable to fathom the feeling to care
And another year slips away carrying with it a debt to repay
A whisper from womb to tomb it will all be over soon
Deep in abandon devoid of intention
A voice very close whispers quiet and thin
Pale and seductive words of redemption
Safe from the burden of what could have been
And another life slips away
Believers glad doubters wise
Suspicion in a liar’s eyes
Come as you are and pay the price
The crack of breaking ice
Don’t you ask what you don’t want to hear
The rose of truth has thorns my dear
Politics in this jungle sprawl
Payback at the curtain call
Easy to pretend misunderstood again
Thin the herd blood of the lamb
Kiss the bowstring patient man
Measured words spilled out on the floor
I know I’ve seen this dance before
Signal to noise best left unsaid
The tallest poppy sloppy dead
Tied to the wheel just to take a stand
No apologies for who I am
Closed mind
Fly blind
Thought crime
High time
Time to draw the line
Feel the blade of duplicity
Rip out another piece of me
Call your bluff then you pass the blame
There’s sorrow but never shame
Easy to pretend
Walk away condemned
Lose another friend
Misunderstood again
Sell me a fantasy easy to believe
No painful revelations in the night
Motherless child no time left to grieve
Damned to lose damned to fight
It all starts off so simple like a little white lie
And a feeling that somehow slips away then it’s gone
But the question that lingers seething its reply
Oh tell me what have I become?
Connections disengage so fast presence lost in glory past
A stranger where I used to belong
Striking out at no one words that I regret
Deceiving myself all along
Why ask why? a foregone conclusion
Fools and lovers smile the candle burns alone
By and by we all find the solution
That waits at the end of the road
So sad at the end of the road
I know
Far too late the moment comes to throw it all away
Still incarcerated in the fable we created
Hide away light of day wasting precious time
But still I cry for yesterday
Still I cry
Weary dawns the morning, alone and unaware
Far away from where I’ve got to go
Tears like sand slipping through my fingers once again
Oh tell me, where did the time go?
Please tell me what have I become?
Still I cry
Stolen words still echo
Consequence lost long ago
Confession comes to bear
So unfair
Flowers wither barren ground
Fragments endure penance bound
A fallen leaf a trembling breath
But cruel time will not forget
Overlooked in the undertow
Reveal her now fever’s glow
A promise to surrender
This and nothing more in lost November
Lament the spirit’s midnight
A gentle stroke in torrid moonlight
Pause to recall a passing unease
Rapture unleashed, embrace the beast
The last dance a silent close
Stilled forevermore hushed repose
Days cut short to inter and embrace
Another year’s coup de grace
Killing frost
Leaving no trace
Another day’s elegy is sung
Another night the only one
Spirit unwilling hold on let go
Deliver me my dying wish to know
Suffer the storm free at last
A labyrinth of misgivings a parting glass
Just close your eyes and see the light
Will you still remember on this longest night?
So much to say words cannot convey
I wonder if I’ll have enough time
And if I ever asked you for a place to hide
Would you turn away? Would you give it to me?
Morning light weary eyes
Knowing there will always be goodbyes
There once was a time when hope sailed on
Your grace will not betray you or the grief you dwell upon
So go to sleep dearest one
No need to weep still alone
If your heart burns to cry don’t camouflage the pain
The story never grows without a little rain
Rest your weary soul find comfort for a time
Forget about tomorrow for a while
But if I ever asked you for a place to hide
Would you turn away? Would you give it to me?
Tonight
In between unforeseen the dark muse sets the scene
Cast aside all your fears knowledge sings wisdom hears
In darkness stars appear
Rise from the deep disguise of likelihood
The right time to become misunderstood
Stir the empty cup solitude
Feel the touch the word
Shine
Just a touch away
Answers in good time
Silent stage cynic’s cage face your empty page
Sweet release sin surreal passion served pulse reveals
The wound that never heals
Feed me and bleed me entangled in her song
Day will break and night will fall right or wrong
Dangerous curves on a road so long
Cast the die take your turn
Pass the kiss of no return
Biased bridges burn
Gestate resonate touched to the core
Together alone at the open door
Gentle the night in tune once more
Never enough