harvest of souls

• (bkz: shivers 2)
• aynı zamanda iq'nun bir parçasıdır, tabi "harvest of souls" olanı.
  
  long before the living past
  had ripped it all apart
  something still remained until
  it flashed back to the start
  where it stands, nobody saw
  behind the blackest eyes
  show them how you're stronger now
  it pays to advertise wisely
  day after day
  you in my head
  i said some things
  i shouldn't have said
  for reasons unknown
  that i now forget
  i gave you no love
  which i now regret
  
  what i'd give to hear again
  those everlasting songs
  why did all the accidents
  contrive to fall at once
  only day after day
  you in my thoughts
  i never knew
  time was so short
  for once in my life
  i wasn't alone
  with blood on my hands
  how could i have known
  
  used to be the great white hope
  once i walked on water
  now i barely stay afloat
  balance out of order
  with every sympathy worn away
  who can i return to now?
  for the time that i have left
  i scan that cold horizon
  searching for a kindred soul
  someone to rely upon
  we disconnected in heaven sent
  sheltered in dead air
  heat in everywhere
  
  the sky lights up above america
  the world is lost but loves america
  when the eyes of children
  see the ones left standing
  and the rest begin to finally understand
  the hand of god defends america
  and who would not defend america?
  
  we've got light on our side
  we ring pole position
  so praise the lord
  and raise the ammunition high
  raise it high
  
  hide where you can
  we will shoot you where you stand
  
  i've walked a million miles
  upon an open road
  and once in every while
  without the will to carry on
  i was helping too long (?)
  one location
  
  an old familiar tale
  a glory to behold
  a work of genius
  the greatest story ever sold
  as you sign on the line
  as you do what you're told
  all you sell is your soul
  
  i've been this way before
  i've seen it many times
  collision on the track
  the picture turning into thought
  no one dares to look back
  best you start to prepare
  for the harvest ahead
  all you lose is yourself
  
  i'm brought to life
  with a series of shocks
  i realize that you are gone from my life
  and still i cling
  to the fear of the dark
  don't follow them for they don't care how you are
  
  and i'm finding
  a way of being
  accepting life all alone
  and i'm hoping
  i'll wake up seeing
  a way to live on my own
  
  it wasn't hard
  to believe in the lie
  although i've come to know it wasn't my fault
  why does the world continue to spin
  while everything around me grinds to a halt
  
  and i'm finding
  a way of being
  accepting life all alone
  and i'm hoping
  i'll wake up seeing
  a way to live on my own
  
  mine is a real fine line
  i get harder the higher i climb
  shine like a star so bright
  anybody can see any time
  
  no one will want to follow
  this will be gone tomorrow
  we enter an age of permanent doubt
  where we communicate without words
  but i must be heard
  so i cut through the smoke and the noise
  
  mine is a real fine line
  it imagines it's one of a kind
  
  goodbye to all expression
  farewell to superstition
  we enter an age of permanent doubt
  where we communicate without words
  
  and the noise expands
  as it covers the lie of the land
  shine like a star so bright
  'til we shut out the light
  put out the fire
  cut through the smoke and the noise
  
  lately i've been talking to myself
  been remembering, and doing little else
  the road ahead
  is anything but clear
  last time around, where did we go from here?
  
  what about some golden hours
  i was alive, certainly you were wrong
  anyone can be pursuaded
  given the time, we all scream alone
  what about this good for nothing
  season again, everything's come and gone
  and i can't believe that i'm not watching you
  i'm in a sorry state
  return to ordinary thoughts now
  if you can
  the words i hardly understand
  gather 'round me
  while i wait
  what about those coldic hours
  arming against lost intelligence
  anyone who saw me clawing there
  would have known that i was normal once
  return to ordinary thoughts
  too young to take the stand
  but old enough to kill
  anyone
  ha!
  
  in the days when love divided up the looks
  no drastic means were use like rubber hooks
  to enhance what nature scoped to have designed
  no hogmortation mingling to refine
  in the valley of the dollar we rejoice
  for blessed is the currency of choice
  and here too long is strictly for the birds
  your ghastly shlang of credit is the fad (?)
  
  when i held myself aloft
  i walked across the water
  now i barely cut across
  lives are getting shorter
  and they open up another door
  to a more refining ?????
  for the time that i'm allowed
  there's a new horizon
  but a soul as cold as ice
  is nothing to rely upon
  
  if i'm hanging onto angels' wings
  then i'm safer in the air
  
  do i still qualify?
  suspended from up high
  no other sanctuary
  heaven
  
  and when the eyes of children
  see past the ones left standing
  and the time has surely come to understand
  who we are
  
  slowly the fires are burning
  bearing their silent witness
  and the living past
  returns to reap the harvest of souls
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