01. Hiding Out
Ted Leonard
Staring into the black, it’s all I see
Holed up in this shroud of obscurity
Inhabiting nothing or it’s inhabiting me
It’s the ultimate anonymity
I set it in motion, I set it right
I said what I said then I said goodnight
Now my clock’s set forward and I can’t set it back
And I’m set in cement staring into the black
Cover of night is blinding
But so is the light, I’m finding
A taste I no longer savor
Don’t need to find your favor
I need you now to come and find me
I’m hiding out in a den of thieves
Have mercy now, don’t crucify me
I’m hiding out
Lost in the garden, I took from the tree
Ate it down to the core, now I’m looking for leaves
I duck behind bushes, hide my face in my hands
And if that doesn’t work, I’ll put my head in the sand
This garden it feels like a graveyard
I’m flying beneath your radar
Can’t understand my behavior
Can’t seem to find your favor
I need you now to come and find me
I’m hiding out in a den of thieves
Be sovereign now, don’t crucify me
I’m hiding out
© Tish Lincoln's Allstar Hits (ASCAP)
02. I Know Your Secret
Dave Meros & John Boegehold
Roaming with the rats
Worth more dead than alive
Hiding from a hundred guns
Running to survive
You wonder when the bullets will finally come
Tracking every step
I followed you for days
Slowly slipped inside your head
Can’t you place my face?
I’m one of the many you left for dead
I know the secret that you keep
I know the demon deep inside
I know the reason you can't sleep
I know the past you'd like to hide
I know the monster you have made
I know the wars you don’t regret
I know the blood that stains the blade
You know I won't let you forget
Some would call it justice
Some call it cold revenge
You can call it what you choose
Go ahead pretend
Defend your life it’s all you’ve left to lose
Remember times were good
Remember life was grand
Funny how the future
Didn’t turn out like you had it planned
The costs were high
Talk was cheap
Promises to God that we all knew
That you could never keep
You knocked me down
But now I’m back up on my feet again
You’d look right through me
If I passed you on the street my friend
Here at the end it won’t depend on who you know
Surprise is on my side
Ready, aim, it’s time you go
© Brainforest Music (BMI) & Publish This Music (BMI)
03. A Treasure Abandoned
John Boegehold & Alan Morse
We followed the strange map of his memory
Back through the landmarks of a life
Though sometimes painful he’d remember
A world of splendor and wonders to behold
As he told his story
He was lost in the land of the angels
And the red temples in the trees
In the tempest of time was
A treasure abandoned
He spoke of those days of hope and destiny
Of dreams and the often-answered prayers
But of an age now gone forever
And though he’d never find that place again
He relives the glory
Of the garden of gods he would tell us
As we hung on every word
Of the choices he made and
A treasure abandoned
Captured by the hands of the master
Colors on the canvas of time
Painting over days ever faster
We witnessed the world through his ageless eyes
© Brainforest Music (BMI) & Chevy Man Music (BMI)
04. Submerged
Ted Leonard
Back and forth up and down
I feel my way around
Finding everything but you
My view of you has grown soft
Got grace but something’s lost
It’s probably the truth
I’m candy coated salt and I’m a dimming light
My fuzzy logic is skewed confusing wrong with right
Throw me a line I’m sinking down
Submerging further, further from you
But I’m doing fine making my way
Further and further
Further from you
Black or white hard to tell
Grey’s a much easier sell
And you give it away for free
So watered down homogenized
That the truth becomes the lie
That you’re starting to believe
I’m candy coated salt, I find it bittersweet
The lack of comfort when not everybody agrees
© Tish Lincoln's Allstar Hits (ASCAP)
05. Afterthoughts
Alan Morse, Neal Morse, Ted Leonard
Voices ringing out
Voices all about...
They don’t think I thought this out
And they all think I should just fall in line
But that’s my plan to make them doubt
Keep my intentions cryptic by design
My ear pressed up against the wall
The footsteps coming down the hall
Is one more dosage all that I can take?
The implants underneath my skin
The altered state they keep me in
But they can’t win if I just stay awake
To keep them out I keep me in
Cause they don’t get to hear the things I know
While bats up in this belfry fly
In circles cause they don’t know where to go
Took me here and stripped me bare
Gave me this lovely robe to wear
And Tuesdays we get Jello if we’re good
The doctor he seems dense to me
His questions make no sense
Cause he misunderstands I’m just misunderstood
Voices ringing all about
Thoughts they scream don’t let them out
Thoughts they’re screaming out
Voices ringing all about
Thoughts they’re screaming out
Voices they are finally coming down
The voices like to scream and shout
I think my thoughts are finally coming down
They all say I’m crazy, I say ‘ha’
Just like a fox but with dementia
By the way, on third thought,
You shouldn’t open up that box that I sent ya
The hatter tips his hat to me
I’m madder than he’ll ever be
At least that’s what they’d like me to believe
A sedative won’t settle me
It’s all one big conspiracy
The message I begrudgingly receive
© Chevy Man Music (BMI), Big Hatter Music (ASCAP) & Tish Lincoln's Allstar Hits (ASCAP)
06. Something Very Strange
John Boegehold
We are praying for the day
Waiting for the skies above to open
We are waiting for our gods to show themselves
We are sanctified and chosen
Hearts unbroken
Hurt unknown...
We’ve been counting revolutions
As we circle ‘round the sun
A million years of evolution
Still our journey’s only just begun
Something very strange
Is coming fast our way
Look up to the sky my brothers
Make your peace with one another
Something very strange
Is coming fast our way
We’ll embrace the revelations
With a ringing of the bells
‘til every soul in every nation
Hears a truth these travelers will tell
© Brainforest Music (BMI)
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