Lyrics

Bound

Those Beautiful Words
By Alan Williams © 2008 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

It's been a long time since I welcomed you in,
And buried your treasure map under my skin
And worshipped a face that was lit from within,
By love

And walking the streets holding on to your hand,
With the words pouring out like the hourglass sands
I'm riding a wave that I don't understand, 
So fleeting

So tell me, tell me, tell me what I'm feeling

'Cause language will falter and fall from our grasp,
And the vacuum of space is a silence so vast
It's the distance that tells us that something has passed, 
Between us

Of all of the wonderful lessons I've learned
When a song has been sung it can not be unheard
And though I've forgotten those beautiful words

I still remember, I still remember, I still remember, 
What they mean

(instrumental)

So tell me, tell me, tell me what I'm feeling

'Cause language will falter and fall from our grasp, 
And the vacuum of space is a silence so vast
It's the distance that tells us that something has passed, 
Between us

Of all of the wonderful lessons I've learned
When a song has been sung it can not be unheard
And though I've forgotten those beautiful words

I still remember, I still remember, I still remember, 
What they mean
Yes I still remember, I still remember, I still remember, 
What they mean

It's been a long time since I welcomed you in, 
And buried your treasure map under my skin
And worshiped a face that was lit from within

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Prodigal Soul
By Alan Williams © 2008 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Well I set out in search of things too dumb to mention
But I lost my way, I lost my nerve
I didn't notice, wasn't paying much attention
Will my prodigal soul return?

I set a match to everything that once had mattered
But some bridges can't be burned
I'll find my way back home by the wreckage I left scattered
When my prodigal soul returns
When my prodigal soul returns

Forgive me for the road I'm on
Forgive me where everything went wrong
Forgive me for being gone so long

So put an end to all the rumor and conjecture
I got what I deserved.
Now after many one-too-many misadventures
Will my prodigal soul return?
Will my prodigal soul return?

Yeah I, I will
Yeah I, I will
Yeah I, I will
Return.

(interlude)

Forgive me for the road I'm on
Forgive me where everything went wrong
Forgive me for being gone so long

So if you've lost something, I'll help you to retrieve it
I'll tell you everything I learned
You'll understand it, but that don't mean you'll believe it

When your prodigal soul returns
When your prodigal soul returns

Say I, I will
Yeah I, I will
Yeah I, I will
Return

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Wishful Thinking
By Alan Williams © 2008 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Tomorrow cannot come soon enough for me
Tonight I'm as sure as I will ever be
I waited for answers and the answers never came
I cast out my demons, now there's no one else to blame.

And nothing is ever good enough for me
The surface is never all there is to see.
I reached out for something and I held it in my hand
But when I looked closer, I began to understand

That when I thought I'd found it,
When I thought I'd found it,
It was just wishful thinking,
Wishful thinking 
Wishful thinking of you.

The night has opened it's secrets up to me
In darkness, the stark relief of clarity.
We slip into focus then we slowly drift apart
Lost in the depths of our unfathomable hearts 

And when I thought I knew her,
When I thought I knew her, 
It was just wishful thinking,
Wishful thinking 
Wishful thinking of you.

Do all of us wonder just how long we can endure
While falling together both unsteady and unsure?

That when we say I love you,
When we say I love you,
Is it just wishful thinking,
Wishful thinking 
Am I in wishful thinking with you? 

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Roses
By Alan Williams © 2008 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Lying with my eyes to the sky
Watching stars and satellites go by
Lonesome as a song, lonesome as a song
On the radio.

Lying with my ear to the ground
Waiting that engine to come round
Making make-believe, making make-believe
I don't have to go.

But oh...

Flowers in my head
Roses for my bed
In summer

Hanging by a thread
Something good she said
Is coming, coming soon.


I'll make believe I'll leave it all behind
An emptiness, never hard to find
Promises and lies, promises and lies
And the drifting snow.

Staring at the shadows on the wall
Waiting for the icicles to fall
Only killing time. Only killing time
Til it's time to go.

But oh...

Flowers in my head
Roses for my bed
In summer

Hanging by a thread
Something good she said
Is coming, coming soon.

(interlude)

But oh...

Flowers in my head
Roses for my bed
In summer

Hanging by a thread
Something good she said
Is coming, coming soon.

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Broken Silences
By Alan Williams © 2008 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Taken in by her unspoken words, 
Singing as she tries not to be heard
Conjuring a world out of thin air, 
A terrifying burden she must bear

Broken silences will echo in the deepest dark
Broken silences will guide me to her heart

How can so much sadness be so sweet, 
And all of the joy so incomplete.
Searching for a reason not to cry, 
The beauty of the moments passing by.

Broken silences will echo in the deepest dark
Broken silences will guide me to her heart

Reaching for a dream she can embrace, 
That love is enough to fill the space.

(interlude)

Broken silences will echo in the deepest dark
Broken silences will guide me to her heart.

Reaching for a dream she can embrace,
That love is enough
Could be enough, 
Might be enough to say
That love is enough today.

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Dreaming
by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein © 1979
see lyrics on www.deborah-harry.com

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Heavens

Astronomy
By Alan Williams © 2009 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)
The starting of the day, you feel the first sun rays
Full of possibility
Rising out of bed, she's foggy in the head
Floating in tranquility
Coffee in her hand
The things that she has planned
Spring to life like flowers from a seed

Off and on her way, she's making out ok
The morning train pulls slowly in
She'll leave the grand parade, for the tools of her trade
A telescope and fountain pen
Look into the lens
See how the light bends
Stretching to infinity

Astronomy – discoveries
Astronomy – the mysteries
Astronomy – of what will be
Astronomy – wait and see

She's moving down the aisle, I look her way and smile
Through the window from my seat
Relativity is all the same to me
Parallel lines never meet
Measuring a space
Too big to calculate
The chance and probabilities

Astronomy – discoveries
Astronomy – the mysteries
Astronomy – of what will be
Astronomy – wait and see

(instrumental)

Look into the lens
See how the light bends
Stretching to infinity
Measuring the space
Too deep to contemplate
Stretching to infinity

Astronomy – discoveries
Astronomy – the mysteries
Astronomy – of what will be
Astronomy – wait and see

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Light in the Window
By Alan Williams © 2009 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

The comet forms an arc that radiates so brightly
It burned a hole into the sky
From out of nowhere soon to disappear forever
With just the faintest of goodbyes

The light in the window
Tells me your home
It beckons to me
But I'm light years gone

The core is frozen and the surface is on fire
It rages silently in space
A bullet fragment ricocheting through the cosmos
And vanishing without a trace

The light in the window
Tells me your home
It beckons to me
But I'm light years gone

(instrumental)

The changing orbits of two bodies still in motion
A chance collision in the dark
The core is frozen and my surface is on fire
And I am vanishing...

Light in the window
Tells me your home
It beckons to me
But I'm light years gone

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Clean
By Alan Williams © 2009 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Cold and still like a frozen ocean
Skating past in the slowest motion
Molten steel like a burst of autumn
Falling fast and there is no bottom

Blood on my hands, blood on my hands

Help me now, the sky is falling
Sing to me of dreams
Hold me now, the earth is trembling
Tearing at the seams
Caught up in a current
Rushing headlong to the sea
But all the water in the river
Will not wash me clean
Accidents, chaos and disorder
Lying still, fear will take me over
Violence, sharp and mystifying
Bends my will, still I won't deny it

Blood on my hands, blood on my hands

Help me now, the sky is falling
Sing to me of dreams
Hold me now, the earth is trembling
Tearing at the seams
Caught up in a current
Rushing headlong to the sea
But all the water in the river
Will not wash me clean

(Instrumental)

Blood on my hands, blood on my hands

Help me now, the sky is falling
Sing to me of dreams
Hold me now, the earth is trembling
Tearing at the seams
Caught up in a current
Rushing headlong to the sea
But all the water in the river
Will not wash me clean

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Adrift
By Alan Williams © 2009 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

So we rode into the night
Til the sun vanished from sight
Falling back to follow your lead
Til your trail is all that I believe

In this state of grace, no one stands alone
We will breathe as one, flesh and blood and bone

Take the boat out on the sea
As the sky begins to bleed
Drifting out far from the shore
Find the strength to let go the oars

In that empty space, nothing stands apart
I will disappear out beyond the stars

(instrumental)

In this state of grace, no one stands alone
We will breathe as one, flesh and blood and bone
In this empty space, nothing stands apart
We can disappear out beyond the stars

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Mystery
By Alan Williams © 2009 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Midnight, silent as a photograph
Silent as a mirrored glass
In pieces

A whisper, floating on an ocean breeze
Floating on a wave that keeps
Its secrets
but I don't want to look in the eyes of heaven
I don't want to see what I can't believe
I don't want to run to the arms of Jesus
I just want to keep the ...

Mystery calls, floating over garden walls
Floating like a wordless song
Surrounds you

And time stops, frozen like a broken clock
Frozen like the rain that drops
Around you

but I don't want to look in the eyes of heaven
I don't want to see what I can't believe
I don't want to run to the arms of Jesus
I just want to keep the mystery

Search light, soaring in the dead of night
Soaring like a wing to guide
The starless

And time flies, high above a metal sky
High above the space that hides
The darkness

but I don't want to look in the eyes of heaven
I don't want to see what I can't believe
I don't want to run to the arms of Jesus
I just want to keep the mystery

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Moonlight Mile
By Mick Jagger and Keith Richard © 2009 ABKCO Music Inc. (BMI)
(Sorry, we can't offer their lyrics)

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Vigil

Numbered Days
By Alan Williams © 2010 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Wait another night
For the morning light to appear
Watching time unravel
Extinguishing the years
Keeping to myself
My solitary sins
From beautiful companions
Nameless to the end
But who will wait
For the light fading away
And who will stay
For the counting of numbered days

The ghosts of my life
Scattered by the winds
A broken line of disenchanted
Lovers and friends
Their faces disappear
And memories take wing
Flying like a bird in my bed
About to sing
But who will wait
For the light fading away
And who will stay
For the counting of numbered days

The future steals the past
Like a thief in the dark
And every memory ends
With a question mark

So I wait another night
Wait another year
Letting time erase
Til my conscience is clear

But who will wait
For the light fading away
And who will stay
For the counting of numbered days

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Softly, Like an Amen
By Alan Williams © 2010 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Strange are the hours
In the late autumn showers
When the mist rises up from the field
Under death's spell
I will lay as i fell
Waiting for all that will be revealed

So far away
As the night follows day
She will turn down the lamp
That once burned
There in the dark
She will know in her heart
That her true love will never return

        Turning the night out

Sweet were the nights
In the soft candlelight
When the fires were lit in our hearts
Come to me now
In the dream's solemn vow
That all lovers are never to part

        Turning the night out

So far from home
I am lost and alone
And the darkness has swallowed me whole
Tell me again
Softly, like an amen
Let your words come envelope my soul

        Turning the night out

The blessed peace
Of the gentle release
Let your prayer come to carry me home
Tell me again, softly like an amen...

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Matte Kudasai
By King Crimson, © 1981 Universal Music Careers obo "EG Music, Ltd." (BMI)
(Sorry, we can't offer their lyrics)

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The Heart That Failed
By Alan Williams © 2010 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Now that the lights have dimmed
And silence falls like a hymn
The arms of a broken man
Reach for an open hand
Longing to be restored
The bottle already poured
Moments that never pass
Bring my lips to the glass

Drink to the poison curse
Drink to the miracle cure
Drink to the memory
Drink to the remedy

A remedy – bitter and pale
A remedy – nursing a heart that failed

There's something familiar here
The fragrance of bitter tears
Burns in the finest grain
And echoes in soft refrains

And now that her eyes are dry
The song of her last goodbye
A kiss that will quickly fade
A lingering serenade

A serenade - broken and frail
A serenade – sung to a heart that failed

Suddenly opened doors
And footsteps upon the floor
The arms of a younger man
Reach for an open hand

Waltzing across the yard
A tango beneath the stars
Stepping through centuries
Living in memory

A memory – faded and veiled
A memory – held in the heart that failed

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So Near
By Alan Williams © 2010 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

I have loved you it’s true
I have wondered aloud at the grace
Of a bird as she flew
With a wave of her hand
Never touching the ground where I stand

Every gesture she makes
Every movement a storm leaving
Scattered debris in its wake
But a delicate touch
I remember that much

I love you still
Although the years fade into memory
I love you still
Your distant kiss still feels so real to me
So near to me, So near

A promise was made
You embodied my ideal of heaven
But now it’s betrayed
Still your words remain clear
And your voice never seemed so near

I love you still
Although the years fade into memory
I love you still
Your distant kiss still feels so real to me
So near to me, So near
There’s a choice I must make
To follow your footsteps
And relive the same mistakes
So, though it may not be true
This is how I will choose to remember you

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Au Revoir
By Alan Williams © 2010 Under a Metal Sky Music (BMI)

Thank you for your muted response
And turning from a loved one to a stranger
I'm learning not to say it all at once
Learning how to recognize the danger

Thank you for the hollow in your voice
Your delicate and eloquent appraisal
I'm listening as if I had a choice
Of hearing something other than betrayal

Au revoir, mon ami
We've come to a parting of the ways
Au revoir, mon ami
In your eyes I recognize
There's nothing left to say
More or less
Less is more
Au revoir

Thanks for the resistance in your touch
Your love for me withheld in hesitation
I've learned to live with needing it too much
So, I'll take the distance as my consolation

Au revoir, mon ami
We've come to a parting of the ways
Au revoir, mon ami
In your eyes I recognize
There's nothing left to say
More or less
Less is more
Au revoir

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