SECRET

It seems we caused a forest fireWith just a flicker of a flame
And now I set alight to everythingNow all I do is cause you pain
I won't keep secrets aliveI'll send them all out to spaceWithout the will to survive
They won't be going no place

Oh my angel. Woman child

I used to think the time would come
When man would rise above the beastI gave up thinking that way long ago
In conversation with a priest

I won't keep secrets alive
I'll send them all out to space
Without the will to survive
They won't be going no place

Oh my angel. Woman child

We could have heal this blindness
With some human kindnessI know secrets kill you
But my love can fill you

Time and time again
Time and time again
It would be so fineIf you could be mine

I won't keep secrets alive
I'll send them all out to space
Without the will to survive
They won't be going no place

Oh my angel. Woman child

POWER

Last year's rivals share their blood

Sailor sworn to secrecy

Ride the waves and stem the flood

The tides of endless enmity

Power now is all the rage

Sons and daughters of the gun

Hungry babies come of age

Phasers switched and set to stun

Power now, power how, power wow !

Here's powerIf you're seeking power .........

Doctor held you tight and torn

Boy he was a lucky man

Out of you the future born

Slight of foot and sight of hand

Douse the candle, dim the light

Focus not on fire or flame

Don't believe that might is right

Your soul can turn you just the same

Power now, power how, power wow !

If you're seeking power - here's power

Power now, power how, power wow !

If you're seeking power - here's power

If you take my breath away

The whole damn thing will turn and return

Redefined, rearranged, rearranged

And till my dying the day

I guess I'll have to burn just to learn

This the time, this the place

To show a human face

Dressed to kill we guessed you might

Friend or foe or family

We'll sacrifice the

Virgin white

Her death will be the life of me

Power now is all the rage

Don't excuse it use it well

Keep the lion in his cage

Free from hunger, free from hell

Power now, power how, power wow !

If you're seeking power - here's power!

UNTITLED

I exist because I do
I am, not for them and not for you
Blaming the universe is not my forte’
We need to live and raise the ante

Which world you revolve
I am not involved.
I will have a smoke with you
An order of tea for two

I am just passing by, bid me goodbye
Thanks for sharing your lows and highs

Yes, I am a stranger, a fiend, a confidant
Depending on how you use your mind
My world is mine alone
You are welcome to your own home

Mix and melt with the sand
Gone now are the powers from your hand
You are a stranger, a friend or a fiend
God, you have so many souls to mend

I am just passing by, bid me goodbye
Where’s that great big gig in the sky?

Yes, you are a stranger, a lover, a woman
Depending on how you use your mind
Our world is a little home
Your universe is yours alone

Mix and melt with the sand
Gone now are the powers from your hand
You are a stranger, a friend or a fiend
God, you have so many souls to mend


12:40 A.M. 01/29/08
(While listening to Secret World and Me and My Big Ideas)

ME AND MY BIG IDEAS

Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears
No one else seems to mind
That I'm not that kind

Go get a volunteer
We'll pay him well my dear
He will see inside your mind
Because he is that kind

It's a southern kind of heat
The shadows crack and start to creep
Conversation drags it's feet
I wish we'd both been more discreet

Like light that is caught between night and day
You're stuck between me and my...Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears

So many strings to your bow
Why not let one goWell they love you when you're weak
But they hate to see this winning streak
It's that thing they call control
There's a deep frustration in their soul

Black thoughts that get stuck between someone's ears
Like me and my big ideas

So many strings to your bow
Why not let one goIn a way this dream is over
Blown away our four-leaf clover
There's no reason whyThere's just me and my...Me and my big ideas
Won't wash away your tears
No one else seems to mind
That I'm not that kind

ALL OF THE ANGELS

It's not suicide or amnesia
Guess i'll kiss and tell, kiss and tell
If you do decide at your leisure
They can weave their spell, weave their spell

All of the angels
Calling us home
We leave tomorrow
We leave everything we own

And I will be sad as i'm leaving
As they take my hand, take my hand
We won't criticize others leaving
We will understand, understand

Yeah, All of the angels
Calling us home
We leave tomorrow
We leave everything we own

Yeah, yeah, yeah
All of the angels
Calling us home
We leave tomorrow
We leave everything we own
Everything we own
Everything we own

Say goodbye to the world and it's false conclusions
Know that time is a wall
And one more illusion
Come alive with the songs
And their live concretions
Leave the keys in the car
We won't go very far
If you realize they are with you
And they're here today, here today

With the secret prize they will give you
It will be ok, be ok

Yeah, All of the angels
Calling us home
We leave tomorrow
We leave everything we own

Yeah, yeah, yeah
All of the angels
Calling us home
We leave tomorrow
We leave everything we own
Everything we ownEverything we own
Everything we own
Everything we own
Everything we own
Everything we own
All of the angels
All of the angels

A TRIBUTE TO MY GREATEST INFLUENCE.

I never thought that after more than 20 years of discovering the music of Tears for Fears I'd still be listening to them, especially to Roland Orzabal's solo projects, and even make a blog all about TFF! But that is how TFF greatly influenced me; their songs gave me a solid perspective of the world we live in. I learned the guitar on my own because I wanted to sing TFF songs!

So here, through the years of writing songs of my own and quite a dozen emotional outburst in lyrical-form (which I have totally misplaced and lost), I am starting my own tribute to my greatest influence and putting in, at the same page, some "lyrics" written from my room, alone, in the midnight hour while listening to TFF. Me and my big ideas. :-)