1. |
Patterns
04:38
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"Patterns"
Take the chance to break away
This doesn't happen every day
The future's too unsure
Take the time to check the tab
Reality is not that bad
Truth need to be exposed
Sometimes it's easier
To copy history
It's tough adapting when there is no cure
Patterns are the maps you draw
Patterns don't take very long
Patterns weather ups and downs
Keep your feet flat on the ground
Know when it's time to cut
It doesn't mean you're giving up
Don't ever leave unless you're thinking
It's always easier
To cling to history
Sometimes your instincts know which way to go
Patterns are the maps you draw
Patterns don't take very long
Patterns weather ups and downs
Keep your feet flat on the ground
Patterns are the maps you draw
Patterns don't take very long
Patterns weather ups and downs
Keep your feet flat on the ground
Don't get too upset
No one wants all they get
Are we really comfortable?
Patterns are the maps you draw
Patterns don't take very long
Patterns weather up sand downs
Keep your feet flat on the ground
Patterns are the maps you draw
Patterns don't take very long
Patterns weather ups and downs
Keep your feet flat on the ground
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2. |
Hide and Seek
08:09
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"Hide and Seek"
Something else to occupy
Something else to drain your energy
Something more weighs on your mind
Something more that’s keeping you from me
All these things to make me bleed
Tangled up in the weeds
Playing hide and seek
As you fade from my view
Where are you?
You’re not here when you should care
Reaching out for your hand
But it’s not there
Hide and seek
You’re not here
Somewhere else is beckoning
Somewhere else is hidden in plain sight
Somewhere else is my retreat
Somewhere else is shelter deep inside
Floating on the sea
Random currents moving me
If I don’t care
I will go somewhere
Rain in the morning light
Dreamt a lifetime in a single night
Weathered and worn
Creased and torn
Creased and torn
Understanding comes too late
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3. |
Taking Control
05:13
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"Taking Control"
I can't find an open door
Recall what I was looking for
Waste from haste we fail to see
Stop to think reluctantly
Now? When? Here? Then?
Demoralized, compromised
Check integrity at the door
Cutting throats, dashing hopes
Face down upon the floor
Our goal, to be the best
To find a way to belong
Help the ones who need
To mold their destiny
But good intentions don't always
Work the way they should
Some end up harming more
Than doing any good
We can't take all the blame
For everything gone wrong
When will others have the right
To find a way with their own insight?
What? When? If? Then?
Bottom lines with token fines
Slim chance to get caught
Example set by hedging bets
Means to and end are bought
Our goal, to be the best
To find a way to belong
To help the ones who need
To mold their destiny
But good intentions don't always
Work the way they should
Some end up harming more
Than doing any good
Our goal, to be the best
To find a way to belong
To help the ones who need
To mold their destiny
But good intentions don't always
Work the way they should
Some end up harming more
Than doing any good
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4. |
Remember To Forget
05:00
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"Remember To Forget"
Dignity in hand
Trapped inside a vacuum
Hostage in wonderland
I try to run slipping and sliding
Stumbling blindly off the cliff
What if - adrift - I can't get back?
Numb I can't understand what's been done
By the other hand
This is now it's not the same
The anguish calls to stake its claim
Sharp in relief time creeps on by
I try to make my peace
With what is and what might be
Home in another time
Memories persist without rhyme
Sounds trigger thoughts trigger pain
Whispers of doubt still remain
Clinging to regret
I struggle to resist
Scars that won't forgive
Can't I remember to forget?
Paranoia building a wall
Naïve misconceptions
Feeding a future I cannot recall
Chaos as I think and feel
Groping blind for the truths that I conceal
All alone upon my throne
Intentions fail to lift the stone
Wear the badge of resentment proud
I try to make my peace
With what is and what might be
Home in another time
Safe and secure of some things
I could be assured
Walk the slippery slope of the past
I choose to dress up my burden
Call it salvation as it drags me down
I try to make my peace
With what is and what might be
Home in another time
Memories persist without rhyme
Sounds trigger thoughts trigger pain
Whispers of doubt still remain
Shackles rust as I release the past
Free from bitterness
Without looking back I can remember to forget
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5. |
Analysis Paralysis
05:17
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"Analysis Paralysis"
I can't make up my mind
Or put this off forever
Always counting on luck
Keeps my mind in a rut
I can't keep ignoring signals
Bombarding me from every side
I can run - but I can't hide
All the facts after the fact
To live this tragedy
It happens time and time again
Analyze until we're paralyzed
We can't comprehend
Here's the info that I need
Now I'll play the devil's advocate
This excess we feed
Is wisdom we don't need
Now I'm afraid to place my bet
Information overload
My head is ready to explode
All the facts after the fact
To live this tragedy
It happens time and time again
Analyze until we're paralyzed
We can't comprehend
Ulterior motives - secret pacts
No one knows all the facts
Hidden message - double talk
Fallen prophets, no safe place to walk
Information up to here
It's no wonder we all live in fear
Analysis Paralysis
All we get are opinions
Analysis Paralysis
Overkill - now we can't comprehend
Analysis Paralysis
Analysis Paralysis
Analysis Paralysis
Paranoia is winning
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6. |
Cactus Valley
07:01
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"Cactus Valley"
A line of clouds forms in the sky
A hazy heat builds slowly
The sun appears beyond the point
A barren stretch awakens
Cracked but seamless to the horizon
Idle landscape, no distractions
Dust and 'weeds drift in the distance
An image flickers by
I see the colors unfolding before me
There's a presence in this unrelenting force
Wind and water work in tandem
Claim the living - unforgiving 'til the end
Can't stop this natural course
The moon will light the changing scenes
A silent contrast to the efforts never seen
Burrows fill as life retreats
A constant battle to defeat the path serene
Cactus valley
The ground hardens worn but sharp
Stifling heatwave focused
Idle creatures scan dominions
Balance failures lost
I see the colors unfolding before me
There's a presence in this unrelenting force
Wind and water work in tandem
Claim the living - unforgiving 'til the end
Can't stop this natural course
The moon will light the changing scenes
A silent contrast to the efforts never seen
Burrows fill as life retreats
A constant battle to defeat the path serene
Cactus valley
Cactus valley
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7. |
Sacred and Mundane
06:29
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"Sacred and Mundane"
Evaporate
Drop by drop
Sinking inch by inch
Feel the ebb and flow
As momentum slows
Accumulate
One by one
Changing bit by bit
Ivory tower test
Entertains the guest
Hidden in the space between the words
Another dialect to learn
An ounce prevents a pound of cure
Sacred and mundane
Articulate
Word by word
Standing face to face
Bridges burning still
In a test of wills
Manipulate
Step by step
Twisting day by day
Addicted to the fight
Words as sharp as knives
I see blue washing into orange and red
Fanning sparks to flame
Details multiply
Never twice the same
Assimilate
Choice by choice
Shrinking lie by lie
False identity
Keeping you from me
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8. |
Dancing Dogs
05:45
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"Dancing Dogs"
Stand back and watch - order falls in place
Left by the wasteside - misled in our haste
Following leaders - but they should follow behind us
Bearing the clout - casting more doubt
Drowning in water too shadow
Nip at your heels - they gnaw at the rope
Hung by a thread - left without hope
Look up and focus - gamble and risk your routine ways
Turning the gear - time drawing near
Embrace the plain we face our fear
Time consumes time
Quick to grasp - too tough to find
Time consumes me
Like dancing dogs too quick to see
Racing full speed - cliffs looming ahead
Pushing and pulling - backwards we tread
Calling the names - Beads of sweat forming on my face
Blurring our sight - jaws storking tight
Memories fade to brave the fight
Time consumes time
Quick to grasp - too tough to find
Time consumes me
Like dancing dogs too quick to see
Time consumes time
As thoughts race through my mind
Time consumes the doubts we believe
Like dancing dogs too quick to see
There's no harvest where nothing is planted
There's no reason this road of success
You must argue what's taken for granted
To the last
Time consumes time
Quick to grasp - too tough to find
Time consumes me
Like dancing dogs too quick to see
Time consumes time
As thoughts race through my mind
Time consumes the doubts we believe
Like dancing dogs too quick to see
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9. |
Safe Procedures
07:30
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"Safe Procedures"
At the end of the day
Nerves are worn, a little frayed
Move to wash up after toil
Look to see the sweat and soil
Passion for existence
Can't be bought, can't be sold
Altering conditions to pave the way
Caution on hold
Caught in a rut of safe procedures
Realize that change is always a feature
So you've done what you're told
Following the rule of gold
Rescued from obscurity
By a sense of destiny
When the cast peels away
Clearing fog reveals the day
Thoughts and plans and dreams take shape
As new fears wait to awake
Caught in a rut of safe procedures
Realize that change is always a feature
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10. |
Another's Hand
06:26
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"Another's Hand"
Bullets split the air
Sounds of destruction and despair
Break the silence - sense the fear
No place to run, no shouts to hear
Creep through the silence
Crouched on his knees
Lurk in the corners
Fault what he sees
Lost in the timeless
Age of vengeance past
Force justice blindly
Another's hand is cast
Signs of life are gone
No trace of fate to linger on
Lost perspective - hopeless rage
Live for the thrill of a war engaged
Creep through the silence
Crouched on his knees
Lurk in the corners
Fault what he sees
Lost in the timeless
Age of vengeance past
Force justice blindly
Another's hand is cast
Creep through the silence
Crouched on his knees
Lurk in the corners
Fault what he sees
Lost in the timeless
Age of vengeance past
Force justice blindly
Another's hand is cast
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"Facing Failure"
Thread the eye
Led by an ill frame of mind
Judge to justify
End results sometimes lie friends and peers
Motives unclear - disappear
Facing fear and doubt
Hear the whisper explode into a shout
Too late to get out
Words stinging twisting turning
Echo in my head
I can't afford the cost of wasted time
No failure
Trapped in a spiral without an end
Around another corner
Turning blind
Tensions crest
Dunce cap crowns the litmus test
Smoking guns report
Can't leave the line to start as scars return
Nothing learned, hopeless and burned
Raging on and on
War of words fought yet again are seldom won
Too late to belong
Words stinging twisting turning
Echo in my head
I can't afford the cost of wasted time
No failure
Trapped in a spiral without an end
Around another corner
Turning blind
Asking, answering, looking, seeing
Take refuge from the storm
Seeking, finding, directions clearer
Truth takes many forms
Words stinging twisting turning
Echo in my head
I can't afford the cost of wasted time
No failure
Trapped in a spiral without an end
Around another corner
Turning blind
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12. |
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Instrumental Track
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13. |
Paintings (ROSFest 2005)
05:04
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"Paintings"
Trapped inside this dark and narrow mind
Far from the outside
If I could stand beside myself
And see what you see
Left alone high upon a shelf
Dust collects on things discarded
I retreat while the world passes by
Scars to justify
Am I a fixture in time and place?
As our old promises fade
Like the paintings we see everyday
That hang in decay
So the familiar feeds neglect
Too plain to perceive
My finger points to my demise
But three point back at me to my surprise
All the same I'm a fixture in time and place
As our old promises fade
Like the paintings we see everyday
That hang in decay
So the familiar feeds neglect
Red and blue pale to black and white
Images live and speak a thousand words
In solitude clouds grace the tranquil sky
Sense the calm sighing in pain
I'm a fixture in time and place
As our old promises fade
Like the paintings we see everyday
That hang in decay
So the familiar feeds neglect
Simply too plain to perceive
Color drains from the scenery
When routine courts apathy
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"Window Dressing"
PART ONE
Tell me what I want to hear
And what keeps you safe
Talk tempts fate
The game is engaged
She plays with fire
Vanity sidesteps around common senses
Shrugging off conscience embracing pride
Twisted scenes bring comfort in delusion
Hide reality from the line of sight
The harvest to intrude
Fight proof
Hollow her words ringing absurd
Lies to save face compounds disgrace
Light filters through the veil exposing guilt
Clutch the straws of logic lost
Hanging on the cross
Ignorance lives in bliss with blinders on
While it shows denial is en vogue
Age-old wisdom's whisper dies from neglect
Our egos to protect
Now that I know
How little we know
About each other
Tracing an image of a portrait
That we wish was true
But the colors run
Faces I see
Tell little about
What to believe
Layers of window dressing
Barely hint at what's beneath
Covered up like paint on rust
Who to trust?
Dress the window
Draw the shade
Light and darkness trade...
PART TWO
If I can still recall
Simplicity seemed like nothing at all
Summertime days to spend without end
Hazy warm faint scent of pine gracing the air
We let our whims take us away
Not to return as Eden drew to a close
Careless deeds strip my faith
Heart on ice I retreat
I wish true were false and fiction real
Bit by bit the mirage fades from view
Never taught finally learned
The corner turned
Wish I may wish I might
Forget illusion's charm
Now that I know
How little we know
About each other
Tracing an image of a portrait
That we wish was true
Fashion covers all we hope to hide
Faces I see
Tell little about
What to believe
Layers of window dressing
Barely hint at what's beneath
Now that I know
How nothing we show
Really matters
Optimistic - pessimistic
Expectation to blame
PART THREE
So much happens that we can't perceive
Safe in a cloak of ignorance
With passing time childish notions finally die
When the pain we endure
Compounds with consciousness
Delusions to protect and survive
Reflecting on what I know I will never know
Curtains drawn concealing the light of truth
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Tiles Detroit, Michigan
TILES is a rock band from Detroit who has released 6 studio and 2 live albums world wide. The latest is “Pretending 2 Run.” Over the years the band developed a style that blends the adventure of progressive rock with an aggressive hard rock edge. Notable musicians such as Alex Lifeson (Rush), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) have lent their talents & support to TILES. ... more
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