The Second You Sleep
Album - 21 gennaio 2002 - Debaser id 117941

Hold your breath, say no more
You've spent the last few hours
Condemning what I said
What did I say?

But I save the best for you
No matter what you think is true
And now 7 demons riding on my back

Candle light and inner sight
A perfect evening ruined
Cancelled by a single word
A single word

But I save the best for you
No matter what you think is true
And now 7 demons riding on my back

Get off my back

I save the best for you
No matter what you think is true
And now 7 demons riding on my back

I save the best for you
No matter what you think is true
And now 7 demons riding on my back

Get off my back
Get off my back

I'm passing through the doorway now
Everything is upside down
The one that I am leaving
Is the one I'm really trying to find
I know
It's so stupid
And it's tearing me down
But a lack of self confidence
Is keeping me down
Tonight
All night

I tried telling you everything's not broken
But you cried when telling me all we had is gone

I'm drifting through the morning breeze
Colours blurring in my eyes
The one that I am missing
Is the one drifting by my side
I know
It's so stupid
And it's tearing me down
But a lack of self confidence
Is keeping me down
Tonight
All night

And I tried telling you everything's not broken
But you cried when telling me all we had is gone
And I tried telling you everything is alright
â ~Cause I feel that deep down inside you
I'm still there
I'm still there
I'm still there
I'm still there
Still there

Tried
Tried
Tried
Tried

And I tried telling you everything is alright
â ~Cause I feel that deep down inside you
I'm still there
I'm still there
I'm still there
I'm still there
Still there

You close your eyes
And leave me naked by your side
You close the door so I can’t see
The love you keep inside
The love you keep for me

It fills me up
It feels like living in a dream
It fills me up so I can’t see
The love you keep inside
The love you keep for me

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish by God you’d stay

I stay awake
I stay awake and watch you breathe
I stay awake and watch you fly
Away into the night
Escaping through a dream

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish by God you’d stay

Stay
Stay

I stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
It gives me time to stay
To watch you fade away
I dream of you tonight
Tomorrow you’ll be gone
I wish by God you’d stay

Stay awake
Stay
Stay

I wish by God you’d stay.

Lose your mind
Lose it twice
Endless wind
and lying eyes
Reveal yourself
and run your face against the wall
I will not fail
I will not silently give in

Take a chance
and take it twice
Catch your dream
Succeed in life
Become a star
and lose yourself in fantasies
I will not fail
I will not silently give in

I will burn
and I'll learn from the thorns in my eyes
I'll rewind
and I'll find my own way to the sky
I will learn to get by
but I'll never be like you

Snake tongued beast with leech morals
Selling dreams
Where nightmares are lurking
Collect and claim
The art that never grew in you
I will not fail
I will not silently give in

I will burn
and I'll learn, from the thorns in my eyes
I'll rewind
and I'll find, my on way to the sky
I will learn to get by
but I'll never be like you
(you talk, you talk, you talk, you talk....)

I will burn
and I'll learn from the thorns in my eyes
I'll rewind
and I'll find my on way to the sky
I will learn to get by
but I'll never be like you

(Until the sun begins to shine, until the Universe is mine
Until the whole world's watching me, until I am what I can't be, will be, will be)

She hides her sadness
In the liquids that she drinks
Consuming everything in her reach
She hides her morals
Behind a wall of bloodshot eyes
Leaving reason as a faint and vague idea

She feels no joy
From the bottom of her well
She sees no light
In every corner of her world

She feels no joy
From the bottom of her well
She sees no light
In every corner of her world

And all her friends
That used to hang around her house
Are gone along with her self respect
Her mind was shattered
By the coincidence of life
And she's now beyond redemption in the dark

She feels no joy
From the bottom of her well
She sees no light
In every corner of her world

She feels no joy
From the bottom of her well
She sees no light
In every corner of her world

Last night I woke
Lost, scared and soaked
In sweat
I lay in bed
Still falling from a rooftop

I'm still trying to get
Closer to who I am
Who I am

Twilight descends
Into a dark velvet painting of my life
Although there's light
Redemption seems so distant

Enchant me with the courage to believe
Won't you grant me all the wisdom that I need

I'm still trying to get
Closer to who I am
Who am I

Enchant me with the courage to believe
Won't you grant me all the wisdom that I need
Grant me all the wisdom that I need
And enchant me with the courage to be free
To be free

Please tell me why do birds
sing when you're near me
sing when you're close to me

They say that I'm a fool
for loving you deeply
loving you secretly

But I crash in my mind
whenever you are near
getting deaf, dumb and blind
just drowning in despair
I am lost in your flame
it's burning like the sun
and I call out your name
the moment you are gone

Please tell me why can't I
breathe when you're near me
breathe when you're close to me

I know, you know I'm lost
in loving you deeply
loving you secretly
secretly

But I crash in my mind
whenever you are near
getting deaf, dumb and blind
just drowning in despair
I am lost in your flame
it's burning like the sun
and I call out your name
whenever you are gone

Tomorrow
(say it all tomorrow) I'll tell it all tomorrow
(say it all tomorrow) or the day after tomorrow
(say it all today) I'm sure I'll tell you then

Well, I crash in my mind
whenever you are near
getting deaf, dumb and blind
just drowning in despair
Well, I am lost in your flame
it's burning like the sun
and I call out your name
The moment you are gone

I ain't as beautiful as you
I ain't as beautiful as you
But in spite of the fact
that I ain't noticed in a crowd
I know it ain't all bad
I know that ain't all bad
If I look in the right direction

In my Mind
In the castle where I am the King
I will build up my arms
until I cross my borders to conquer the world
on my one way crusade

I ain't as clever as I seem
I ain't as clever as I seem
In spite of the fact
that I am learning every day
I know it ain't all bad
I know that ain't all bad
If I look in the right direction

In my Mind
In the castle where I am the King
I will build up my arms
until I cross my borders to conquer the world
on my one way crusade

I say... I ain't as beautiful as you
I ain't as beautiful as you
But I may return though
to see the beauty of it all
I know that ain't all bad
I know it ain't all bad
If I look in the right direction

In my Mind
In the castle where I am the King
I will build up my arms
until I cross my borders to conquer the world
on my one way crusade
I say...

Empty stairs in a worn out house
That's where she stays where she hides out
locked up safe she explores her pain
until she leaves to explore the night
that's all she knows it's a poisened rose
it's all she wants when she glides into the night
but all she needs is to open up her eyes
and she knows it's here it echoes in her mind
she will be found when her feet hits the ground
locked up safe she explores her pain
until she leaves to explore the night
that's all she knows it's a poisened rose
it's all she wants when she glides into the night
but all she needs is to open up her eyes
and she knows it's here it echoes in her mind
she will be found when her feet hits the ground

She's so fine
She grows in their minds
into the light she conquers the world
a moment so wonderful
a diamond so precious
a beauty beyond compare. She's so fine
She grows in their minds, they look into her eyes
and feel so surprised
as she crawls under their skin
they're ready to die for
the miracle in july
She's so fine
She grows in their minds
She speaks no words but they know what she says
just by looking into her eyes
It's just a God given gift
that they instantly get just by looking into her eyes
They don't have to wait for her no longer
They don't have to wait for her no more