1. Peace Among The Ruins

I slipped through the cracks this time
And for now I'm doing fine
I will never tempt the hand of fate
Millions falling right and left
While I stand alone but yet
Took a lot of chances with my life... With my life

Battle lines, waste of time, I better keep on movin'
Clouded minds feelin' fine, peace among the ruins...
Peace among the ruins

Through the years I felt alone
Now I know it wasn't so
By grace alone
I lived to sing this song
No more will I play the fool
So much more that I must do
Answer all the questions in my head...
And you know about my head

Battle lines, waste of time, I better keep on movin'
Clouded minds feelin' fine, peace among the ruins...
Peace among the ruins

2. The Fringes

Why wish upon a star my friend
Keep a Merlin in your hand
See the leering vagrants
Dirty hands, dirty face and they rant

Living on the wind-down
Sure, through it all you'll prevail
Consistently staying at zero
Square one, the first mile, stand still

Live on the fringes, peel back a smile
Second chances for no one, desire's a deadly pill

Kiss the sky while you figure you're wading up to your knees
Pouring swill in a dixie cup, maybe you'll die in your sleep

Live on the fringes, peel back a smile
Second chances for no one, desire's a deadly pill

Walk away, you know you won't get what you want
Don't even waste your time

So I leave you with this now,
life has no place for heroes
In the trench of the seemingly
Unfortunate few, the doomed souls

Live on the fringes, peel back a smile
Second chances for no one, desire's a deadly pill

Walk away, you know you won't get what you want
Don't even waste your time

3. Seasons

Season – See the sweat on my neck, rollin' down
Season – Quiet a storm, bad one hear it come
Season – Only four but every one I love
Season – Time to fly to feel good anyhow

I wouldn't take nothing from you
I couldn't wait to see you
Everyday, follow me
Day by day, fallin' leaves

Season – Harvest moon, sitting in the sky tonight
Season – Fire & rain
The sun is on the rise

I wouldn't take nothing from you
I couldn't wait to see you
Everyday, follow me
Day by day, fallin' leaves

Time to fly to feel good anyhow

4. Find The Time

All alone we must go, through the desert of the soul
Before there's no more time
If every turn we make is right, circling our faith
Will be the peace of mind

So if the minstrel plays tunes of sweet malaise
What wonders we will seek
We're fighting better fights, witnessing beliefs
Our vision turns to sight

It's time to find the time, It's time to find the time

Before you come undone
Before you reach the end
You better turn around
Kneel down and pray

5. Speed Of Time

Like an army, lead by second hands
The arms are spinning faster now, I'm a bitter angry man
All the days are numbered, they go flying by
No way that I can stop this train, no hope to even try
It's all moving faster, never to be
It's all ever after, it's all destiny

Lines upon my face I see grow longer day by day
A slave to unseen masters, what a wicked game to play
Diggin' up the pieces of a broken checkered past
Torn and tattered memories of thing that never last

It's all moving faster, never to be
It's all ever after, it's all destiny

My world won't stop turning but I'm standing still
Waiting for nothing, no time to left kill
Dreams cost too much and sleep wastes my time
It's never enough for the peace I can't find

Tears I'm crying I've left to find
If I go nowhere I cross over the dotted line

I cross into the twilight in a calm wide open sea
To drown my sorrows on the rocks and tranquillity
The days of former glory, in the days when we were kings
Only in the memory, can we begin to dream

It's all moving faster, never to be
It's all ever after, it's all destiny

6. Sunshine

Sunshine – Turning, shifting, pouring through my open mind
It's time
Morning's calling, day is dawning open eyes

Month of Mondays will I see
All my summer's worth of dreams
Seems to be

Sunshine – Wash me clean of evening schemes apologize
I've tried – Every way to spend my day, I realize

Month of Mondays will I see
All my summer's worth of dreams
Seems to be

Sunshine – Shifting through a day that's new, remembering
I'm high – Stranger days will melt away the song I sing

Month of Mondays will I see
All my summer's worth of dreams
Seems to be

7. Slave

I walk through the darkness, I'm a stolen man
Comin' from nowhere, some foreign clan
I'm soundin' a drum, to ward off the night
Cries through the air, could be a children and wives

My brothers made me a slave

Staring blank at me, woman crawling on her knees
Writin' in pain, from her broken feet
Moon on the rise, I lift my head
Will they bury me here even though I'm not dead?

My brothers made me a slave
Down on your knees, I will betray my creed
Yeah...

I tripped the wire and the net came down
Wherever I look I saw no one around
Freedom is free
But now I'm made to pay
For nothin' I've done but for another's deed

My brothers made me a slave
Down on your knees, I will betray my creed
Yeah...

8. Bringin' It On

They asked me if I'd come down, and sing a little song
I'm much obliged indeed, what shall I sing?
Songs of frailty, of love and what someone needs
With the sweet sounds of harmony
Leave behind the fairytales and those California dreams
Take some time, breathe the air, where the mountains meet the sea

Only one way to go
I find it easy if I don't sing alone
Only one way to go
I find easy if you just sing alone

Let's come together
I will be the one to bring it on, bringing it on
Let's come together
I will be the one to bring it on
I will bring it on
Only one way to go
A change of season and I'll be goin' home
Only way to go
Too many reasons for me to carry on, for me to carry on

Let's come together
I will be the one to bring it on, bringing it on
Let's come together
I will be the one to bring it on
I will bring it on