NOWHERE LAND

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Prologue 

 

Let me sing to you a lie

You had to be there to believe

Something I paid for with my life

A place called Nowhere Land

 

It’s a cautionary tale

From which you may never return

I’m sorry to the ones I love

And anyone who learns of Nowhere Land

 

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Dream Machine

 

Sing to me a lie

And I will follow you

And I will  fall asleep

And I will fall asleep

Tears will fill my eyes

As you rock me off to Nowhere Land

And I will start to weep

And I will start to weep

As you rock me off to sleep

In your arms

 

Dream Machine I’ve lost my mind

Somewhere in the land of sleep

Don’t know how long I’ll last 

Tangled in the webs you weave 

Dream Machine it’s not my time

I know you don’t care how much I weep

Oh no, don’t take my eyes!

I need my sight, oh let me see

 

Rock me, don’t you rock me

You won’t take me alive

Rock me, don’t you say you love me

I know it’s a lie

 

I feel weak, my eyes are gone

My skins turned cold

Am I asleep

Don’t know where I began

Don’t take my soul

I’m in too deep

 

Your nails are scratching the inside of my head!

As I fall into a sea of gently rocking hands

And soothing voices

I don’t know if I’m alive or dead

As I wash upon the shore

As I wash upon the shore in high tide

 

Hello! What have we here?

I haven’t seen you around this place before

Let me show you around dear…

Hello! What is your name?

Don’t be fooled by your surroundings child

This is no game

This is no game

 

Run!

Run!

Run!

Run!

 

I don’t know what I’ve become

I don’t know what I’ve become

 

Rock me, don’t you rock me

You won’t take me alive

Rock me, don’t you say you love me

I know it’s a lie 

 

The Dream Machine will let me go in time

’Til then it whispers sweet nothings into

My long-forgotten mind

’Til then it whispers sweet nothings into

My long forgotten mind

 

You are too powerful to comprehend

I am a broken fool

You’ve come to fight it out ’til the end

Well I’m not afraid of you!

 

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What Occupies A Mind 

 

What keeps is all together, my friend

The thinnest golden spidery threads

Spindle-spun corners and edges

The fabric of time

 

I used to be the man you see here

Now blackened eyes and blank stare

So pull a little closer if you dare

Maybe you’ll find

 

What occupies a mind

 

My horror turned to wailing 

As I was reefed apart by parting time

Sorrowfully radiating out

Into life after life after life

 

I used to think so logically

I thought I knew reality

I used to think that I could see

But I was blind

 

No sense to hurt or hold onto

Anything that I once knew

Only thing that left to do

Maybe we’ll find

A way out of this mind

 

My horror turned to wailing 

As I was reefed apart by parting time

Sorrowfully radiating out

From my mind

To find a way out of this life

After life after

 

They plugged me in

It powered up

They dialled it to infinity

Then time stretch out 

My mind fell in 

Dilated exponentially 

Then all I had to pass forever

Every possibility

Now I’ll never leave

I’ll never leave 

I will never ever ever

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No Relief 

 

When will this be over?

When will this be over?

 

I used to know

I used to notice

When my eyes had gone out of focus

And I

I used to feel

And I could tell when 

My mind had gone out of rhythm

With my heart 

 

To know release

To know release

To know release 

To know release

 

How long must I stay?

What price must I pay 

For all the things I’ve done?

How long must I burn?

When’s it my turn to finally

Be at peace?

When will I know release?

 

I used to speak 

No-one could hear me

‘Cause they all thought that I was crazy

And now look at them run

They all look tired

But they can’t run from this great fire

 

To know release

To know realise

 

How long must I stay?

What price must I pay 

For all the things I’ve done?

How long must I burn?

When’s it my turn to finally

Be at peace?

When will I know release?

 

When will this be over?

When will this be over?

 

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Still Longing

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Am I even here?

Am I just a memory?

Of someone in a mind

Of someone who’s asleep

Dream Machine have you let me go?

 

Who is the one called ‘I’?

The one who was your enemy

The one you sang to with a lie

The one who sacrificed a life

Who is the one who’s letting go?

 

I cast my nets at the emptiness

To find somebody I knew

But all I find is myself still longing

 

And if I let you go

If I go back to Nowhere Land

Let it all begin again 

For all this loneliness to end

Will I remember why I started?

 

So I’ll cast my nets at the emptiness

To find somebody I knew

And all I’ll find in is myself still longing

So I’ll cast myself at the vastness of time

In the hope that I’ll find something true

But all I find is myself still longing for you

All I find is myself still longing

Yes all I’ll drag in is myself as I  

As I unify 

Unify

Unify

Unify

Unify

 

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Not Afraid 

 

A hundred trillion years is a long time

A hundred trillion trillion lifetimes

To reconnect my mind

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I wish that you could see my eyes now

And rue the day you ripped them out ‘cause I

I can see you now

And I will dress you down 

Yeah, I’m coming for ya!

 

You were too powerful to comprehend

I was a broken fool 

You’ve come and I know that you understand

I’m not afraid of you

 

People too numerous to apprehend

You know you’ve lost them too

We’ve come 

And I know that you understand 

We’re not afraid of you 

We’re not afraid of you

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When This Is All Over

 

When this is all over

And there’s nobody there

No-one the cheer

Why do we do anything here?

 

When this is all over

And there’s no-one to care

Of all that we burdened to bear

Why do we do anything here?

 

Is that why embers flee the fire

And soar on high 

To make time matter?

How I grieve to still believe in time

 

When this is all over

Washed down the stream

Of all of our dreams

Why did we chose any of these?

When this is all over

And all our beliefs

Gone with the breeze

Why did we choose any of these?

 

Is that why we both opened fire,

To kill, to die,

To make life matter?

How I grieve to still

How I grieve to still

How I grieve to still believe in life

 

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Somewhere

 

There used to be a time when I could trust my senses

Now all that I can know is that I am, and existence

So into all that I can know is where I’ll go

Into all that I can know is where I’ll go

Into all that I can know is where I’ll go

 

Here we are again

A mighty stretch into the infinite

Let it all unwind

Reset the clocks into a hundred trillion years of time  

 

Farewell my life

Farewell my love

Farewell my mind

Let’s see what we will find somewhere

 

Where do we go now?

That even matters if it’s infinite?

And if it’s all a dream, love

Am I the dreamer or the dreaming?

 

I’d give my life 

To find my love

To free my mind

Let see what we will find somewhere

 

You think you want to know

Until you know the price

Someday you may find

What occupies my mind

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Interlude

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A hundred trillion years to see

My only enemy was me

And all I wanted, all I needed

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A hundred trillion years to know

There's nowhere to go

'Cause all I needed

All I needed was love

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Reprise

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Be still my soul

I'm sorry

Beyond control

I'm sorry

And I forgive you

And I forgive myself too

For all that we have done

 

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Afff

Finale

 

Out of the the nothingness

There was a something less 

Nothing than everything 

That was nothingness

 

There was an ‘I’ still aware of the difference

So I decided to see what that something was

Out of the something

The faintest remembering

Take care when setting this out

Once you let it go

There’s no way out 

And you’ll live every hour 

Of every moment

Be rapture or agony

 

So I let go with abandon

And loving held it together,

The light and the darkness

And out of the darkness 

Grew wondrous, marvellous

Somethings of light

That collided and turned into

World upon world

Into countless, most infinite

Waves of experience

All that grew out of this

One single feeling

That ached into being

Then life after life 

We stretched out just to see what we’d find 

Now it’s everywhere, everything

All that there is

There is nothing that isn’t

Not separate

I am, and we are, and they are and everything

All still colliding, expanding, discovering

Joy into pain into love with no opposite

Swung back and forth

What it means to be part of this

Knowing thy self as a point of experience

Takes every angle forever

That all that there is

 

Round and round again

Back in to Nowhere Land

Roll out the dice

Dive into the kaleidoscope 

Reefed into everything

Pulled back to self again

Pull back the trigger

And fire into Somewhere Land

 

You are too powerful to comprehend

Be not afraid of you

 

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Nowhere Land

 

There is so much everything here

There might as well be nothing

So what do I do when every last future’s 

Already happening

Where do I go where I don’t know

This weight of loneliness, oh

 

I’ll go back to Nowhere Land and dream

 

Letting go gets harder as you go

When all that you have known

Is all that you could know

 

You’ll find your tear drops in the rain

You’ll find your heart and heal your pain

You’ll find it’s all one in the same

You’ll find your dreams are wide awake

You’re grasping at the wind again

 

There is so much everything here

There might as well be nothing

So what do I do when every last future’s 

Already happening

Where do I go where I don’t know

This weight of loneliness, oh

I'll go back to Nowhere Land

And dream

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Where do you go when you’re fast asleep

Do you disappear?

Or is it all a dream? 

 

You’ll find your teardrops are the rain

You’ll find heart and heal your pain

You’re grasping at the wind again

 

There is so much everything here

There might as well be nothing

So what do I do when every last future’s 

Already happening

Where do I go where I don’t know

This weight of loneliness, oh

I'll go back to Nowhere Land

And dream

 

Letting go

The only way to know

We're laughing at the wind!

 

There is so much everything here

Still uncovering

So what do I do when every last future’s 

Ours for for discovering

Where can we go 

What can we know

Before it’s time to go back?

Where can we go 

What can we know

Before it’s time to go back?

Where can we go 

What can we know

Before it’s time to go back?

I’ll go back to nowhere land

And dream

 

There is nowhere that is nowhere

And you know there’s no way out

 

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Remember

 

All I’ve built

All I’ve done

Ever after over 

Ever just begun

 

Here I stand

At the end

At the beginning again

 

As I walk through the light

Surrender what’s mine 

Surrender my life

And remember

 

All that is

All that was

All that will be is here

In our place

Never left

Nothing left to fear

 

As I walk through the light

Surrender what’s mine 

Surrender my life

And remember

 

Her we are

Dearest friend

Nothing’s really over

Nothing really ends

Here we stand

Here embrace

Here we are again

 

As I walk through the light

Surrender what’s mine 

Surrender my life

And remember

Surrender my life

And remember

Surrender

Remember

Remember

 

That this was all a dream.