Songs from The World in Stone:
1) Rejected
2) All These Things
3) Mad Man's Eyes
4) The Line
5) Halcyon Days
Rejected (lyrics and music by Julian Shaw)
Who's the one with the shivering
hands?
To fall in line never seemed so easy
imagination was in demand and wasted everyday
A Canadian dreams of the
world in stone
The thirst for pride the seduction of treason
Dereliction was born in Rome and exported everywhere
Get connected, don't stay
out in the cold
Get rejected, they say it's good for the soul
Get elected, so sorry get rejected
When lines of reason negate
their rank
The lines of fashion will shape our children
The lure of freedom was close at hand and we were on the ball
A rarity of it's own design
If they are coming then I can't see them
I'm just scared that in this sign we squander what we call
Get connected, don't stay
out in the cold
Get rejected, they say it's good for the soul
Get elected, so sorry get rejected
So sorry you're neglected, so sorry you're neglected
So sorry you're not what you seem
All These Things (lyrics and music by Julian Shaw) Top
I couldn't help it, I should
have known
The institution in my life has let me down
And those that care will walk the road
While others watch it all and curse the twisted crown
I see the border from where
I stand
The line divides the temple, cuts through sacred land
And those that suffer forget their best
And those that died in vain will somehow get their rest
It's a circle we form
All that dies someday will be reborn
And all these things they haunt me in my dreams
Eye to eye we crack the
soul
Sometimes it's what's behind that makes you feel so cold
Even children read the signs
They know the path of freedom, leave us all behind
It's a circle we form
All that dies someday will be reborn
And all these things they haunt me in my dreams
It's times like these that really make me think
All these things, all these things
Mad Mans Eyes (lyrics and music by Rob Bates and Julian Shaw) Top
Walking into quick sand
slowly sinking down
Rope burns from the life-line
I can't let go
I'm not gonna be the one
hiding away in this comprimise
I'm not gonna be the one bringing about my own demise
Oh and the world slips by
Sold once down the river
now you can't buy me back
Crazy world in the mad man's eyes
What's the point in being sane?
I'm not gonna be the one
hiding away in this comprimise
I'm not gonna be the one bringing about my own demise
Oh and the world slips by
Oh and the world is sliding
Stand up and be pushed back down
Holding on to nothing
And now the worlds slipped by
Morsels for the hopeful
Are sops fed to the fools
Rope burns from the life-line
Now I just let go
The Line (lyrics and music by Rob Bates and Julian Shaw) Top
The sky is blue but the
clouds are black
This is the calm before the storm
I fell the pain, it's in my heart
No black and white
You in your world and me
in mine
We never crossed the dividing line
We keep asking the questions
But you give no answers
and we don't know where to find them
The tribal dance that our
leaders perform
They draw a line in the sand
I bet it all, I took the call
And they walked out
You in your world and me
in mine
We never crossed the dividing line
We keep asking the questions
But you give no answers
and we don't know where to find them
And you know
Every hope has gone by
We're just waiting for tomorrow
How can you?
How can you know?
They run my way but they
own the night
Quaternery rules are buried
An watch them stretch to keep it low
My last defence
You in your world and me
in mine
We never crossed the dividing line
We keep asking the questions
But you give no answers
and we don't know where to find them
Halcyon Days (lyrics and music by Rob Bates) Top
Simple pleasures
Harmless dreams
Just like Lot's wife I shouldn't have looked back
And things that I'd forgotted I now recall
It's crazy living regret
Let's recall yesterday
Those Halcyon days once more
Before we knew it all, blew it all away
You're to blame that it's gone, gone, gone
Was it real?
Had you seen a ghost?
Zumbo's model was dead anyway
It's no good waxing lyrical right now
It's over for all to see
Let's recall yesterday
Those Halcyon days once more
Before we knew it all, blew it all away
You're to blame that it's gone, gone, gone
Let me take you by the hand
And lead you down this one way street
Let me remind you
It's forever
So much has happened
But we're still here
Thank God for Petrov, he saved us all
The edge of darkness staved of yet again
I'm dreaming of the last time
Let's recall yesterday
Those Halcyon days once more
Before we knew it all, blew it all away
You're to blame that it's gone, gone, gone