Savior
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
I see your writing on the wall.
I see your picture in the hall.
Your words shine to me like a sand grain in the desert sun.
You don’t hear mine, for the learning here has not begun.
Every time I close my eyes I see you dying.
How could you know you chose to throw your life away?
Come take my hand, I’ll lead you to the golden sun.
Don’t waste my time, delinquency can cure no one.
I don’t know why you haven’t tried to save yourself from ridicule.
Don’t criticize or prophesize when you don’t know who you’re talking to.
So when you’re speaking I can’t believe a word you say.
You sing your song about your long and tired day.
Why won’t you free yourself from dreams of yesterday?
Come join the comfort, remove your pain and save your soul in every way.
Why don’t you come and join the sane?
You’ll learn to play the pawn in my game.
Reality
Lyrics: C. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
Living in permanent deception
Leads to severe inner oppression.
Affinity to the material door
Robs the sacred realistic core.
A controlling contagion leads the mind
Falsifying roots, making one blind.
Paying in gold for misguided tours,
Pure inhabitation turns fewer and fewer.
A molecule of water in an overflowing weir
Existing solely for cohorts to peer
Creating a fake world in this unfortunate day
Living a troublesome lie in a pitiful way.
Reality (Reprise)
Lyrics: C. Mahoney
Music: M. Mahoney
A controlling contagion leads the mind
Falsifying roots, making one blind.
Paying in gold for misguided tours
Pure inhabitation turns fewer and fewer.
Respite
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
I stand alone against the darkness outside.
A subtle breath, but in you I confide.
You took respite in my heart
Away from the storm in my mind.
Hold your tongue, for I don’t know you now.
Don’t give in to your thoughts, but somehow.
I Dreamed
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney, C. Nelson
I dreamed of you, then you’d come.
My thoughts of you dripped from the canvas of memory.
Your beacon calls me from within,
A shining light to lead me back to living yesterday.
A silent lesson tells.
A candelabra lit with flames from lower depths of Hell.
A wave is passing through my mind,
A minor 7th chord that leads to no resolve.
Unhand my beating heart tonight.
Or am I relegated to see the world through wanting eyes?
You changed my life just by showing
Movement through the air.
You changed my life without knowing
In silence that we shared.
A sense of freedom much too soon
Forever sipping from an empty glass of wine
Imagine sifters holding sand
Impossibilities and dreams I understand
A silent lesson tells
A candelabra lit with flames from lower depths of Hell.
Solitude
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
No sound of shuffling feet
Upon the desolate street.
There are no words to explain behind this dying refrain.
It’s justice that they seek to obtain.
There is no juice in the glass,
No sign of purging the past.
I sit at home all alone, having to censor the phone,
Ponder thoughts of which one has to atone.
Take one more chance at the book,
Another mind warping look.
Unjust decisions in the court of the law
They force a wandering man.
There are no fears and no joys for those who wish to employ
The comforts of an unwanted man.
Save me from solitude here, it is the lesion that will not heal.
Another night on my own, under the weight of another appeal.
Save me from solitude here, it is the lesson of fortune and deals.
Another night on my own, there is no reason behind turning wheels.
Tonight
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
Excitement rings, expression sings as we gaze upon our winnings.
Recruiting brings excluding things as we strive for new beginnings.
No sign of beating from this lifeless heart.
We turn to look for it’s in the book to elect a figurehead.
Conspiring towards acquiring all the fortunes that we’ve bred.
No sign of beating from this lifeless heart.
We’ll raise our glass tonight, tonight.
We’ll rise again tonight, tonight.
Don’t start too soon tonight, tonight.
Don’t sleep to late tonight.
Extortion with contortions ‘neath the faded office wall.
Hypocrisy in democracy ensures a quick and thorough fall.
No sign of beating from this lifeless heart.
The Summer Sun
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
Mindfully watching, embracing the darkness
Deceiving, believing, decoding the lines.
Similar voices, embellished by noises
Your visions are suddenly mine.
And if you move to the summer sun,
You’ll know too soon that the time has come.
You’ll waste away the day
And pray…
Leave the devices which shattered your soul
Deluded by fright in an instant concise.
Give in to the ruins of life as a whole
Your fortunes depend on the dice.
The night unfolds, you step inside.
A match is lit, the billows rise.
You waste away the day
And pray to see through the lies.
But if you wait for the night to come
You’ll find too soon you’ll be on the run.
You waste away the day
And pray for the summer sun.
Islets of Langerhans
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
“The Dance” Symphony #1, Mov. II
Lyrics: M. Mahoney
Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney
I search for the answer through folds in my mind
Enveloped by shrouds of the past left behind.
Scarcely a soul comprehends what I’ve done
The truth to their eyes is eclipsed by the sun.
The candle of life burning lower.
The heat of the light turning colder.
The length of the sky has turned gray to the eye
Of the child deep inside growing older.
I walked to the end of the hall on my own.
The ones that I’ve lost sound as dissonant tones.
The scorn in their eyes turns to hatred and spite
Expelling me out to the cold winter night.
Tell me my fate as I’m going,
The map and the road it is showing.
My silver in twilight is tarnished, not bright
And the wind at my back keeps on blowing.
Out of the darkness emerges a form,
A heavenly body to blot out the storm.
She takes my hand and we whirl through the night.
I savor the moment ‘fore she takes her flight.
Two lovers slave to the heart.
Two lovers slave to the heart.
Two cardiac cells keeping rhythm as well
As a metronome playing its part.
Suddenly out of the sky falls a stone.
The woman is gone and I’m left all alone.
The tip of a wedge has been placed on my breast
Awaiting a hammer to fall on request.
The waters of fate harshly churning.
The wheel of romance ceases turning.
The fire ablaze, choking smoke, blinding haze
My heart left alone slowly burning.