I Never Thought This Day Would Come

I lost my luck
East of Eden
I came unstuck
And now I’m pleading
With a begging cup
My luck ran out just east of Eden

Oh, I proved you right
I’m a danger
The tom cat bites
Now I’m a stranger
Howling through the night
Can’t fight it, I know that I’m a danger

By the skin of my teeth I’ll be
Flying by the seat of my pants
Hanging on by my fingertips
Holding out for a second chance

I’m so tired
Of being a failure
My fate’s conspired
And left a trail
Of broken bones and stars
I’m tired, don’t let me be a failure

And when I sink
Would you man the lifeboat?
I’m scared to think
You’d give me no hope
When I face the drink, I’ll sink
Oh drag me on your lifeboat

By the skin of my teeth I’ll be
Flying by the seat of my pants
Hanging on by my fingertips
Holding out for a second chance

But don’t get my hopes up
Don’t get my hopes up
Don’t get my hopes up
Oh get my hopes up
Don’t get my hopes up
Get my hopes up
Don’t!
And don’t get my hopes up
Oh get my hopes up
Don’t get my hopes up
Get my hopes up
Don’t get my hopes up

By the skin of my teeth I’ll be
Flying by the seat of my pants
Hanging on by my fingertips
Holding out for a second chance

I burned easily since I was a boy
Opened my skin to the darkest of joys
I’m asking for help
‘Cause I can’t help myself
And now I’m diggin’, diggin’ an early grave

I’ve forgotten how to be myself
Keep my courage boxed up on a shelf
Why is everything I want
Always something I can’t have?
So I’m diggin’, diggin’ an early grave

Diggin’, diggin’, diggin’ an early grave

Down I fell through a hole in the stairs
Crashing through hallways and old armchairs
It’s hard to hold on to things
When you keep on falling
Now I’m diggin’, diggin’, an early grave

Diggin’, diggin’, diggin’ an early grave

I dreamed of Cinderella
The Queen of fairytales
I was her Prince Charming
Desirable and real
But I’m just a lonesome skeleton
Not worth a second glance
But oh my bones are aching for a chance
To flesh and blood dance

Faces in the mirror
I’m haunted by the dead
Voices of old sweethearts
Calling me to bed
These ghosts come uninvited
Chimeras of romance
But still my bones are shaking for a chance
To flesh and blood dance

Flesh here in my hands
Blood here in my heart
Lips hard on my lips
How my flesh and blood dance

Palaces and pleasures
I’ve had them for my own
But I’d lose them in an instant
To have more than these bones
But greed has turned me deathly
I’m caught within it’s trance

Truax Chant
Do you want to dance?
Would you like to dance?
All we want is flesh and blood!
Don’t you want to live?
Snap out of your trance?
All we want is flesh and blood!
This dance-floor’s lying empty
Come on, let’s dance!
All we want is flesh and blood!
Do you want to dance?
Everybody dance!
All we want is flesh and blood!

Every bone is breaking for a chance
To flesh and blood dance
Flesh and blood dance

When did I become a habit
That you kicked long ago
A tired refrain on a broken down train
Old lantern buried in snow

I tried to reach you with science
To find a familiar phrase
A word that sticks, that helps to fix
The fragments of your face

I never thought this day would come
Now it won’t go away

I broke down on Union Street
‘Cause you won’t come back to mind
Stuck on a note, an old song I wrote
On a tape I cannot rewind

You were the back of my hands dear
But now I can’t recall
I blame myself over and over
So you can’t blame me at all

I never thought this day would come
Now it won’t go away

I just want to feel something
Something, something
I just have to feel something
Something, something

When did we wake up lonely
Our connection falling short?
Stuck behind wires, impossible fires
Still the same distance apart

I never thought this day would come
Now it won’t go away

I just want to feel something
Something, something
I just have to feel something
Something, something

I’ll talk to you in a while
When tragic spreads its wings
To sail away
Leaving beauty in my life
To support me and leave
These shadows behind

I’ll walk with you in a while
When sadness takes its toll
Then fades away
Leaving hope within our lives
To restore and heal
And turn back the tide
Turn back the tide

Ooh Ooh….

And if I don’t feel it anymore
I still can believe it
And if I don’t see it anymore
Still I know it’s for sure

I lied to you for so long
Now something needs to change
To fall away
Leaving truth within my life
To release and drink
Those memories like wine

I left you for too long
But I’m coming back again
Won’t drift away
Or lose you in the dark
Believe me love, I won’t leave you behind
Leave you behind

Ooh Ooh….

And if I don’t feel it anymore
I still can believe it
And if I don’t see it anymore
Still I know it’s for sure

Danger in the marrow
Deep inside my bones
I can feel it coming
Whenever I’m alone

And how this whole thing started
I couldn’t really say
The seeds we planted years ago
Have risen up today

You’ve got a weird way
Of setting me free

And my heart’s saying please
On a pair of bleeding knees
Please, please, please let me go

You hit me like a champion
But kept me in the ring
I’m praying for my corner
To throw the towel in

This should be an ending
In some old tragedy
But you won’t stop believing
Or see it like I see

You’ve got a weird way
Of setting me free

My heart’s saying please
On a pair of bleeding knees
Please, please, please let me go

You’ve got a weird way
Of setting me free

And my heart’s saying please
On a pair of bleeding knees
Please, please, please let me go

I’m so unsure of myself
I doubt my very heartbeat
I’m like an immigrant
Knocking on a stranger’s door

I don’t have words to say it
I wish that you could feel it
It’s like a hurricane
Has kicked me down to the floor

Right at the start of me
You stole a part of me

Mocking bird wish me luck
Mocking bird wish me luck
‘Cause I want more
I want more

My thumb sent you a letter
And please excuse the timing
But I’ve carried it
Longer than I’ve loved myself

I hoped that you would open
The chest we put our love in
But you locked it up
And put it back on the shelf

Right at the start of me
You stole a part of me

Mocking bird wish me luck
Mocking bird wish me luck
‘Cause I want more
I want more

Woke up on a field of snow
A thousand miles from home
The wind it took my memory
Now I don’t know what I’ve done

I was taken to a doctor
Who certified my mind
A man who has no memory
Has nothing left to hide

Nothing and I like it
Nothing and I like it

Nothing you could do can bring me
Nothing you could do can bring me
Nothing you could do can bring me round
Around

I choked up it was yesterday
Just after you had phoned
You said we once were lovers
And friends who shared a home

I don’t know how I fell for you
You see I’ve got this spotless mind
But if I could face the future
I think I’d fall another time

I’m falling and I like it
Falling and I like it

Nothing you could do can bring me
Nothing you could do can bring me
Nothing you could do can bring me round
Around

Someday I’ll be ready for this new world
Someday I’ll be ready for this new world
This new world

I’m tripping on the wires
Always falling on the black notes
Maybe I create the hazards
Punching holes in every life boat

And it’s so hard
To get so far

Why does
Nothing come easy?
Nothing comes easy

The red light is a warning
Don’t reveal the beast inside me
So I’m wiping the recording
There’s just nothing here that moves me

And it’s so hard
To get so far

Why does
Nothing come easy?
Nothing comes easy

Stop, start
Stop start

There were sweet, sweet kisses at the start
But they pierced, pierced, pierced my little heart
I had big, big plans for you my love
But a dark cloud gathered up above

This is where the story ends
This is where the story ends
It’s all too heavy for my heart
Those sweet, sweet kisses at the start

It was boom boom back when we were friends
Now the boo hoos tell me it’s the end
What you did it ripped us at the seams
Now those sweet, sweet kisses feel like dreams

This is where the story ends
This is where the story ends
It’s all too heavy for my heart
Those sweet sweet kisses at the start

So long, so long
This could be the end
Maybe, someday
We’ll be born again

There were sweet, sweet kisses
There were sweet, sweet kisses at the start

I’m raising Cain again
I’m raising hell
Showed you the state I’m in
Told you how I fell
Our sorries weigh us down
Makes it hard to stand
Those proverbs we made in the winter they must end

And the wolves keep coming in
Like in those prophecies
The black forest keeps sending them
For deathly company
We’re dying tied to rules
We can’t comprehend
Those proverbs we made in the winter they must end

We’re broken and beautiful
Deep scars on skin
Our regrets they can be a spur
Every crack can let light in
If we raise our heads again
We’ve got a chance to mend
Those proverbs we made in the winter they must end

We started out with courage
And then we let the whole thing fall
Cashed in our insurance
To cut our loss to something small
Now I am more than broken
So dig a hole and in I’ll crawl

Why does anybody love?
Why does anybody love at all?

We said at the beginning
We’d help each other up again
But I’ve fallen down so often
Proved that I’m the weakest of men
This could be an ending
Do I see upon your lips an Amen?

Why does anybody love?
Why does anybody love at all?

Won’t you still be mine?
Won’t you still be mine?
Won’t you still be mine?

If I end up with nothing
Then that’s a treasure I’d love to hold
‘Cause you were once inside it
Now there’s a memory made of gold
Well, you might be a believer
But I seem to turn your faith so cold

Why does anybody love?
Why does anybody love at all?

Say yes if you’ll be mine
Say yes if you’ll be mine
Amen