The Third Ending

Track Listing:

1. Eleven

2. Back Home

3. Tungsten Blues

4. Can You Hear Me?

5. Fingerprints

6. Digital Sunrise

7. Cold Light of Day

8. Falling

9. Part V

10. Coming Around

11. Fingerprints (reprise)

 

Eleven

 

Silent for so long inside your cage

Tell me how does it feel to take the blame?

I've swallowed all the stories that you told

An answer is all I want before you go

 

We are poles apart my friend

In spite of how you try

You cannot change the end

And I, I wont hesitate

To hang my head and wait

But only for a moment this time

 

Underneath the surface, barely even there

Tell me what you're thinking so I can understand

Learning you by instinct only

Is a waste of time

 

Hanging on is nothing new

You don't have long, so tell the truth

 

We are poles apart my friend

In spite of how you try

You cannot change the end

And I, I wont hesitate

To hang my head and wait

But only for a moment this time

 

Tow the line

Help me through

Watch your back

It's not over

Trust in me

Don't let go

We're wasting time

 

Hanging on is nothing new

You don't have long, so tell the truth.

 

We are poles apart my friend

In spite of how you try

You cannot change the end

And I, I wont hesitate

To hang my head and wait

But only for a moment this time

Keeping silent for so long

How does it feel to take the blame?

You never wanted to be saved

 

 

Back Home

 

Wide eyed, encumbered

By an image of you

Taking me over

 

I can't see you

But I know you're there

Disconnected

Pulling me closer

 

So far away, from here

 

You know now that it's over

The silence leaves me shuddering

I lose myself for days

And find myself just staring at the wall

It seems in a moment of carelessness

Your whole world can slip away

So far away

 

Close your eyes, drift away

Float away

It took a lifetime to fall

And I don't want to wake up from this dream

There's nowhere else to go

So I'll find my way back home

 

Never mind the distant thundering

The sound of your defences giving in

It seems as if you're crumbling

I feel the cracks appear beneath your skin

Over and over again

 

Close your eyes, drift away

Float away with the emptiness of this moment

It took a lifetime to find you, to fall

And I don't want to wake up from up this dream

There's nowhere else to go

So I'll find my way back home

 

So far way from here

 

Close your eyes, drift away

Float away with the emptiness of this moment

It took a lifetime to find you, to fall

I don't mind, and you will never know

I've been left with nowhere else to go

So I'll close my eyes and drift away

Float away with the emptiness of these moments

It took a lifetime to find you, to fall from here

I don't want to wake up from this dream

Now I know there's nowhere else to go

So I'll find my way back home

 

 

Tungsten Blues

 

(Instrumental)

 

 

Can You Hear Me?

 

Spent the last two years dividing

Seems she wants to multiply

Tired of just surviving

Another day has passed him by

An unfamiliar story

Is something he has yet to try

 

Can you hear me?

 

She lies awake beside him

Drifting in and out of sleep

She feels the coldness growing

With every broken beat

So she reads aloud the headlines

Hoping that he’s heard

She says she loves him

He doesn’t say a word

 

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me at all?

Will you be there to break my fall?

Will you be there at all?

 

It seems like a lifetime

Since she disappeared

She tried to tell them

But they refused to hear

And now that she’s gone

There’s no one else to blame

And the space she left behind her

Bleeds like an open vein

 

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me at all?

Will you be there to break my fall?

Will you be there at all?

 

I called to say I’m sorry

And let you know what’s on my mind

So many things left hanging

It’s hard to leave the past behind

I hope that when you hear this…

 

Can you hear me?

 

 

Fingerprints

 

Awake from a broken lullaby

A glimpse from the corner of your eye

Something that fades into a shadow

Safety in isolation there

Your own secret shelter from their stares

A place where you know you’ll be alone

 

You can take all that you find

But don’t forget to leave your fingerprints behind

 

 

Digital Sunrise

 

His world is in fast forward

But he keeps one finger balanced over pause

A lifetime in an instant

But he never seems to notice anymore

Years of Isolation

Loneliness he cannot understand

He holds on to his reason

But it’s slipping through his grip like grains of sand

 

Staring round a vacant room

Waiting for the night to end

Watching as the world wakes up

To a digital sunrise

 

His world is disconnected

Analysed with every move he makes

A mind being overloaded

Senseless static, asleep but wide awak

Filtered through his memories

Pieced together pictures from the past

And falling all around him

The silence shattering like glass

 

All his life spent waiting for the right time

(please wake up)

All his life spent waiting here alone

All his life spent searching for a reason

For all the times he waited for the light

 

 

Cold Light Of Day

 

I know it’s a mystery, this landslide

Seems like I’ve shut down on the inside

I wonder why I hold on

To things that won’t be here long

Don’t make me question my awareness

Something is rising from the darkness

You can’t hold it down

I can’t hold it down

 

 

Falling

 

Opened myself up

Thought the words would come so easily

But I found a hollow

I think that’s where lost my sanity

Searched for the edges

Feeling slowly through the emptiness

Nothing feels right now

Everything’s become so meaningless

 

Nobody watching

No one knows I’m falling from my place

Nobody near me

Not that they would catch me anyway

 

My Resistance is failing

Leave me here so I can feel the pain

My consciousness breaking

Fighting through the madness everyday

Trapped in a nightmare

How could I think I was ever free?

Fading to darkness

Turning from the light that blinded me

 

Nobody watching

No one knows I’m falling from my place

Nobody near me

Not that they would catch me anyway

 

 

Part V

 

Nobody watching

No one knows I’m falling from my place

Nobody near me

Not that they would catch me anyway

 

 

Coming Around

 

Surrounded by uncertainty

Searched for something to believe

The weight of the world upon your shoulders

The one thing you couldn’t leave behind

Was one thing you could’ve done without

You always wanted something more

You didn’t feel it drag you down

 

You found your way back to this place

And realised that all along

You had to come back here to move on

Did you find that you had grown?

Have you come into your own?

 

So draw the blinds and lock the door

And once again, just like before

Search for the meaning in connection

Bathed in an artificial light

Eyes reflecting black and white

A window to the world outside

Was opened up inside your mind

 

Looking back from far away

You realised that all along

You had to come back here to move on

Did you find that you had grown?

Did you come into your own?

 

All of my life spent treading water

(Awake from a broken lullaby)

All of my life spent here alone

(A glimpse from the corner of your eye)

All my life spent waiting for the light

 

You’ve fallen to where you used to be

No longer blind

Nothing will ever be the same

Now that you know the reason why

 

 

Fingerprints (reprise)

 

Awake from a broken lullaby

A glimpse from the corner of your eye

Something that crawls out of the shadows

Safety from isolation here

No need to shelter from their stares

A place where you know you’re not alone

 

You can take in all you find

But don’t forget to leave your fingerprints behind