Rhythm

The bass is pumping
The keyboard humming
Guitars are wailing
Everything feels all right
Everyone's on key
Everyone's on beat
I think this is the night

Leave the terrestrial behind
And join the atmosphere
Lost in a timeless moment
The world is blindingly clear

Blasted to a spiritual plane
Free from all other constraints
A place where nothing exists but the rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm

Play until fingers blister and bleed
Voices are hoarse, can't feel the keys
Gonna need just a second to breathe
And stop

Phoenix

Approach the city and the stars fade

Blanketed in an orange haze

And I wait

One more day has passed on by

One more day I didn't try

Still you wait

And I wait

Hoping things actually change

And you wait

Hoping things remain the same

And we wait

Really wanting the same things

It's all up to us

And we've given up

Trains rock by on darkened track

Bringing those on their way back

And they're gone

I've been away for three long days

Enough time for the world to change

Moving on

And I waste

One more second of my life

And I wait

One more minute has gone by

Still I wait

And I find that I have died

It was long ago

And I didn't know

Disconnected

You're supposed to be the one

Who sticks with me when they're all gone

You walked out, I'm not surprised

I'm just irritated that you lied

And I've tried, yeah I've tried to get through to you

You're like a steel vault, there's no breaking through

Too often I've apologized

You say you forgive but now I realize

You will never, ever compromise

Guess it's time for me to say goodbye

'Cause I've tried, yeah I've tried to get through to you

You're a dead-bolted door, there's no getting through

So much for unconditional

You've only caused additional pain

For now I give up on you

I can't make you feel what I need you to

I've tried, yeah I've tried to get through to you

Words fall on deaf ears, there's no reaching you

Independent

I'm not trying to seek attention
This is something I've got to mention
I'll say this without pretention--
I can't deal with convention

If there's a box, I'm outside it
About the man--I've got to fight him
Intention's not to start a riot
But one small boy took down the giant

Independent
No intention
Four dimensions
Comprehension

Not just a face in a crowd
Wandering--not lost--I'm found
Contradictions seem to abound
Impossibilities confound

Complexities

Indigestion
Recollection
Misdirection
Realization