Lyrics - AFTERLIFE - Official Website

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Meet my doppelganger, he’s an evil man

You know that face in the mirror isn’t who I am

Sometimes I wish I could look and he’d be gone

I just can’t seem to get him to leave me alone

He’s a total stranger, he’s no friend of mine

The worst kind of danger you could ever find

He’s always there when I try to sleep at night

But then he disappears when I turn on the light

I thought he only existed in the corner of my eye

But now I know he’s waiting for the day that I will die

My doppelganger lurks in the void of space

Waiting for the day he can take my place

Sometimes I wish I could look and he’d be gone

I just can’t seem to get him to leave me alone

He’s always there when I try to sleep at night

But then he disappears when I turn on the light...

Turn on the light...turn on the light...etc.

Science fact was once science fiction

Mountains wear away with time and friction

What's here today is gone tomorrow

Even the time were living on is borrowed

Love goes on when you're dead and buried

Everything But Love Is Temporary

One day it rains, the next day it's sunny

Taxes and death will take all of your money

Children get old and beauty will fade

All is forgotten we've done and we’ve made

But one thought brings comfort when everything's scary

Everything But Love Is Temporary

Love is tomorrow after yesterday’s gone

Even bad days are only 24 hours long

Once it's created love never dies

Through the decades and history it can't be denied

It's the one thing we make that wont disintegrate

Good things and bad things share the same fate

Love is a constant when everything varies

Everything But Love Is Temporary

Days will come and days will go

The future brings a brand new age

Time moves on an endless flow

The present moves out of its way

Can’t you see the past is fading out

Everything will happen suddenly now

Dreams are real, reality’s a dream

You sleepwalk all the time

Night are crimson, days are green

The colors swirl inside your mind

Don’t you think it’s lovely anyhow

Everything will happen suddenly now

The future seems so far away

It seems to take forever and a day

How many moments have I wasted today...

Counting down the second hand

The clock is running out of sand

The end is the beginning and...

I see it all from where I stand

Can’t you see the past is fading out

Everything will happen suddenly now

Don’t you think it’s lovely anyhow

Everything will happen suddenly now

The old man reads in the paper

That the worst is yet to come

He does believe every thing he reads

Where do they get these stories from?

The young man counting his pennies

To save for a rainy day

Just like his father told him

A storm will be heading this way

What’s that got to do with the price of tea in china?

Could I interest you in some real estate in hell?

The old man drank from a bottle

The best years of his life

He’s got a son and a daughter or two

But he no longer has a wife

The young man thinks he’s a scholar

Dreams he’ll be a millionaire

In times of need will he show his greed

To the one’s who thought he cared?

The old man died in a alley

They said it was a natural death

There was no one to hear his dying song

When he drew his final breath

The young man just finished college

He got himself a decent career

When all is said and done, who has lost or won?

He pops the top on another beer

One cruel word was all you gave

She trusted you to help her through a bond betrayed

One sharp tongue cut her in two

The battle won you stand alone cause she left you for

One cruel word (One cruel word),etc...

One kind word was all she asked

A mild request yeah but you knew best

Too great a task

You built your wall, and hid inside

No one could reach down into the breach

And crush your pride

So what did you learn after causing so much pain

Would you take it all back, or would you do it all again

The night is cold, the empty room

You’re thinking back on your attack

You spoke too soon

You touch the phone, you hear the tone

You start to dial out across the miles

Can you atone for

Evolution tried to teach us

How to learn from out mistakes

But we’re animals

And the world is a great big cage

We’re conditioned from the cradle

Until we fall into our graves

Cos we’re animals

Performing tricks upon the stage

Civilization is a word that we use to describe

What we build and machines that we have devised

Have we made it better for me and you?

We must remember all the things that didn’t work in the past

Because the future is approaching a critical mass

And now it’s time to break out of the Human Zoo

When it’s quiet in the city

You can hear the jungle roar

We’re all animals

We’re no better than before

All the progress we have made

It carries on from age to age

We’re still animals

It’s the fate of the human race

I cast a coin in the wishing well

My eyes wide shut and I’ll never tell

How many days I have come to you

And you know there’s something I have to do

I take a breath and I hold it in

Got to keep it all together when it’s falling again

There is no destination and no finish line

Nothing ventured, nothing gained  

Nothing settled and nothing changed

Nothing lost and nothing won

Nothing and nothing is none

A long time ago I was a younger man

I had many dreams I didn’t understand

Now these days it’s a different song

That I sing when things are going wrong

I run a race to the end of time

But when I get there, what will I find?

No revelation waiting in disguise

There is no badge of honor, and there is no prize

A lifelong  journey now has brought me here                  

But I don’t know why

I’ve seen the makings of a better day

But I can not fly

Take my hand and dance with me

In the sand beside the sea

As long as the waves dance beneath the moon

I will dance with you

Feel the wind begin to sway

Through the palm trees beside the bay

As long as the wind whistles us a tune

I will dance with you

As long as there’s sand beneath our feet

Who needs a band, the waves can keep the beat

Take my hand and don’t let go

Understand there’s something that you have to know

As long as the wind whistles us a tune

I will dance with you

I will dance with you

I bet you’d rob the sunshine of all it’s energy

Just to get your name written on a page of history

(You steal it all) You steal the thunder

(You steal it all) You steal the spotlight from the stage

(You steal it all) You steal the future

(You steal it all) Now here’s the headstone on your grave...

It doesn’t seem you have any shame

You’d do anything for 15 minutes of fame

I bet you’d take the candy from a newborn baby’s grip

If it’d get your name on the tip of everybody’s lip

(You talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk)

You step on everyone you knew

(You talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk)

Now I’ve got some news for you...

(You want it all and you want it now)

You want the world to bow to you

(You want it all and you want it now)

You really haven’t got a clue...

As the story goes, I was a sailor lost at sea

But the truth be told, I was running away from me

I hit the open road, I had a map to lead my way

Deep in my soul I knew I’d be back here some day

Though it’s been a long, long time

I still remember anyhow

And I find it all comes back to me now

Just like riding a bike

I go back in time to a place I will never ever forget

An unusual find, but they say you ain’t seen nothing yet

I try it on for size, it seems to be a perfect fit

I try to rationalize, I start to get it bit by bit

Second time around even better now

Nothing like a dream keep me on the ground

Opened up my eyes, see what’s all around lately...

Oh, I stepped away, and I tried a different route

Yeah I took a break, just to see what the world was about

But now I’m back in tune, with the way I’m supposed to be

Won’t be leaving anytime soon now that I’ve found my destiny

Poor little rich girl pursued by a country boy

So disarming when Prince Charming said that she’s his only reason for joy

He promised her that he'd spend his life

Making sure she was a satisfied wife

But ever since the downturn she's found herself alone

Now that the money is gone

He shines in the pulpit when he's preaching the word of the Lord

The most pious and self-righteous reverend the church could afford

They bought him a Rolex they bought him a car

But it stretched the collection plate too far

He packed his bags in the middle of the night now he's moving on

Now that the money is gone

Upon reflection some folks' affection

Is tied to the bottom line

No funds remaining they start complaining

It's only a matter of time

He picked the lucky numbers and exploded his bank account

He was surprised by the long lost friends that he suddenly found

Everybody seemed to want him around

He was the biggest thing in his little town

But now when he calls no one answers the phone

Now that the money is gone

A picture’s worth a thousand words

But I’d need a million more

Just to scratch the surface of the things that I adore

I could write a trilogy

An epic, timeless tale

But I’d have to write the sequel

‘Cos there’s so much more to tell

Don’t shake me now or I might wake up

And find that it’s not true

To make a long story short

I’m in love with you

No encyclopedia has the space to hold my words

I could write them in the sand,

But it’d cover all the Earth

I could tell you a story that would take the rest of time

Just to put it simply still would take me all my life

When my head hits the pillow

I dream of what I will say

When I see your face the very next day

I remember a little town

Everyone was always looking down

The sun was up and the sky was blue

Everybody walked around looking at their shoes

Don't look up, don't look right

Don't look left, keep out of sight

Don't make waves, keep your feet on the ground

That's the way it was in Lookingdown Town

Sometimes you've got to make your own luck

And that begins when you start looking up

Opportunities all around

That you might have missed when you were looking down

One day a fellow fell on his ass

A bird caught his eye as he lay on the grass

Eyes in the sky and his back to the ground

Saw the world that he missed when he was looking down

Don't look back at the way things were

There's lots to see just north of the dirt

The seasons changed, the world's turned around

Things are looking up in Lookingdown Town

They say it never happens twice

But you know that isn’t true

You’re a lightning rod

For all the failure you go through

And when you look back on your past

You’ll see a storm about to brew

You’re a lightning rod

For all the pain that you are due

And now your head is filled with clouds

And your eyes are pouring rain

There’s a sadness in your heartbeat

But that’s easy to explain...

You know you bring it on yourself

Just by being like you are

You’re a lightning rod

You’re the key inside the jar

When you hear the thunder roar

It makes your nerves all stand on end

You’re a lightning rod

And you’re electrified again

I wrote my name in the sand beside the ocean

In the morning it had all been washed away

The water had no memory of my visit

My slate was clean and I wanted it that way

I want to be forgiven like the sand along the coastline

Let the waters wash all my past away

Everything I've ever said

Everything I've done

All I'm asking for is to be...Forgiven

Wrote my confession on a page made out of paper

Tore it up and threw it in the fire

Watched the ashes swirl into the moonlight

Watched my sins dissolve into the sky

Oh, I want to be forgiven like the paper in the fire

Let the winds blow all my mortal sins away

Everything I've ever said

Everything I've done

All I'm asking for is to be...Forgiven

Silence all across the land

There’s no where left for me to stand

I call you...the time is at hand

I fall through the cracks in the sand

And I need your help just to get me through it all

I cry out loud and I hope you hear me call

I’m sinking...time is running out

I’m thinking what my life was about

I hear the echoes of a distant day

As the quicksand takes my breath away

Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhh...

There’s no use, no use to struggle now

I can feel the weight as it pulls me down

Darkness soon will be all around

I will remember you right before I drown