Serenade

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, beat torn apart

Voices ringing in their heads
Their crashing hands in time
In sequence and in rhyme

The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a million strong
Echoes the perfect praise, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, beat torn apart

From the mouths of babes and fools
Haunting melodies
With gracefulness and ease

Compose their gifted words
Orchestrate their moves
Echo the perfect praise, serenade

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, beat torn apart

The prophets tell the tale
The legend in the lines
The fable and the rhymes

The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a million strong
Echoes the perfect praise, serenade

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, beat torn apart
In rhythm and swing
The gift that we bring
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, beat torn apart

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade

Mine for Love

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life

Looking from a spiral staircase
At a man with a suitcase
As he shades his eyes
Watching from a stained glass shelter
He bides his time and thinks
There must be more to life than this

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life

The poet reads his words out loud
To a make-believe crowd
In the quiet of his room
Careful where the tears are falling
He closed the book and cried
There must be more to love than this

See the boy on the walkway
Where the young have their own say
And it screams from the wall
He's writing for the hundredth time there
I hate it all but
There must be more to hate than this!

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life

A life as a stranger
Hands through a wire
Forbidden desires
Are mine for life

Hymn

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

And they say that in our time
All that's good will fall from grace
Even saints would turn their face
In our time
And they told us that in our days
Different words said in different ways
Have other meanings from he who says
In our time

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

And they say that in our time
We would reap from their legacy
We would learn from what they had seen
In our time
And they told us that in our days
We would know what was high on high
We would follow and not defy
In our time

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

Faithless in faith
We must behold the things we see

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

Give us this day all that you showed me
The power and the glory, till my kingdom comes
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory till my kingdom comes

Visions in Blue

Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes of memories still aglow
Only for you
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Visions in blue

Read while the letters still remain
Sip from the wine of youth again
Oaths made in silence still return
Only for you
Cast like a shroud you're clutching on
Visions in blue

Catch aimless smiles from passers by
Blistered and broken in reply
Breath seems to mist the hazy view
Only for you
Tears coat your lifeless eyes with dew
Visions in blue
Visions in blue
Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw

Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw

Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw

Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes of memories still aglow
Only for you
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Visions in blue

When the Scream Subsides

And we talk (and we talk)
Just the two of us
All the time (all the time)
Nothing serious
We pretend (we pretend)
Time was on our side
Till the end (till the end)
When the scream subsides

Yes, we had it all, had the key gripped in our hands
We could see the fall as the martyr understands
When the chorus calls there's no room for hope inside
Lose it all when the scream subsides

And we talk (and we talk)
Just the two of us
All the time (all the time)
Nothing serious
We pretend (we pretend)
Time was on our side
Till the end (till the end)
When the scream subsides

Yes we took the role of the lovers and the friends
And we played our parts till the words came to an end
But the tongues were tied in the passion and the pride
Waste it all when the scream subsides

And we talk
All the time
We pretend
Till the end

And we talk (and we talk)
Oh, just the two of us
All the time (all the time)
Nothing serious
We pretend (we pretend)
Time was on our side
Till the end (till the end)
When the scream subsides

And we talk (and we talk)
Just the two of us
All the time (all the time)
Nothing serious
We pretend (we pretend)
Time was on our side
Till the end (till the end)
Till the scream subsides

We Came to Dance

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

Standing as the parade goes passing by
I hear a voice around me cry
Like the sound of distant drums
Rejected and alone
A heart without a home
And someone said

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

We came to dance

Waiting as the panic grips my hand
Hearing prose from high command
Like a million times before
No dignity or grace
It's the prize and not the race
And someone said

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

We came to dance

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away

Take what you can, they said
Take it while you may.
But keep in mind the penalty fits the crime
And it deals no softened blow."

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

We came to dance
Making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away
We came to dance
The piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time

Cut and Run

See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressures on him now it's time to cut and run

Time passing so slowly
Still as he sits and he watches
The sand slip through his hands
He demands something more
Something strong
Something savage and pure
One more twist of the knife
And it's time to cut and run

See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressure's on him now it's time to cut and run

He smiles
As he draws on his last cigarette
And he tries to forget all that forces every move
He commands something new
Something strong
Something spiteful and true
One more twist of the knife
And it's time to cut and run

He cries on his tape
So they might understand
Signs his farewell
With a squeeze of his hand
See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressure's on him now it's time to cut and run

See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressure's on him now it's time to cut and run

See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressure's on him now it's time to cut and run

See the man on the phone with a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in a room with a gun at his head
Pressure's on him now it's time to cut and run

The Song (We Go)