Familiar Company

Familiar Company

These tears I cry fall like raindrops on the pavement
I'm wondering, why the treatment, deny my right to be
Abandoned here I'm without hope
And forgotten here I'll lie alone
In familiar company, accompanied by the symphony
A hundred thousand nights I've cried alone

I need to leave before my shadow creeps on me
sucking all my life away, my long-lost joy is diseased
What's it gonna matter once I'm dead and gone
There won't be anyone left to play this lonely man's song

Once again, the Neverwas appears,
Just to rake his ingrained claws against my heart
And then the bell it tolls for I'm finished playing the part
Wondering how I even got here with such an awful start

I'm just trying to think; where did I go wrong
It must have been long.... long, long ago
I'm back again in the old song and dance
It feels dusty and rusted after a term of unuse

These tears I cry fall like raindrops on the pavement
I'm wondering, why the treatment, deny my right to be
Abandoned here I'm without hope
And forgotten here I'll lie alone
In familiar company, accompanied by the symphony
A hundred thousand nights I've cried alone

The Lonely Man

The Lonely Man


Happy times, sad times, more of the latter
Life goes on, come on, what's the matter
No one to love?
No one to hold in your arms?
There's gotta be someone for him in this world.
Secluded living, like oyster and pearl
He wants you, he needs you.
He's trying to show it, but you don't notice

There's no use trying to lie
Because anything that he tries
Gets thrown down the drain.
All that is done is done in vain,
His life begins and ends in pain
Because nowhere on Earth is there anything to gain

There he is, he's lying to those that he loves
It's killing him, filling him with emotion enough
The end is near, that he fears, dreading what lies ahead
Running away from problems that can't be solved
Many times in his life he is thrown at the wall
These thoughts are confusing him; messing with his head
The wall is now blood-red.
He wants to be dead.

There's no use trying to lie
Because anything that he tries
Gets thrown down the drain.
All that is done is done in vain,
His life begins and ends in pain
Because nowhere on Earth is there anything to gain

Shamefulness, faithlessness, loneliness
Hatefulness, friendshipless, no happiness
He has to live and carry on, as hard as it is
Lying to everyone, it can't be stopped.
Emotions inside of him, ready to pop
Breaking his heart, tearing him apart
Boom it bursts, Pandora's box,
It cannot be stopped...

There's no use trying to lie
Because anything that he tries
Gets thrown down the drain.
All that is done is done in vain,
His life begins and ends in pain
Because nowhere on Earth is there anything to gain

Did any of it mean anything to you?
He thought that maybe it could turn into
More than friends, his girlfriend, it should have been you
You lie, cheat, steal; he cannot see
Inside his mind, he thinks "It's over for me."
Death visited the poor, hurt man in a rainy midnight street.
This sad, grey, dreary story is finally complete
Now he's lying somewhere, buried under six feet


There's no use trying to lie
Because anything that he tries
Gets thrown down the drain.
All that is done is done in vain,
His life begins and ends in pain
Because nowhere on Earth is there anything to gain

In the Forever Gaze of Better Yesterdays

In the Forever Gaze of Better Yesterdays



Just deceive me, I'll believe your lies
I'm receiving, while receding to a quiet place
I can't conceive just why you did this to me
I'll forever wonder why you shattered my dreams

In darkness, hallowed, under moon
The scared little boy crying in his room
The lovers lay upon sand dunes
And the crickets weave songs across the loom

While I am left, this night is blue
I remember all the words I've ever said to you
And the emptiness builds inside
Its a blackness that I mostly hide

Every little letter you wrote to me
Each and every single note to me
Every simple word and phrase I read
It brings me back to you
But I know you're not there
And although I can't accept it
I know I'll always care




When I said I love you, I meant it.
When I said forever, it's true.
Even if you never believe me
I'll always be here loving you