Hold your fire -- Keep it burning bright Hold the flame 'til the dream ignites -- A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission I hear their passionate musi...

Where the air's not clean Where the water's glowing green Where the dogs are mean I'm Moving to Bohemia Taking you along Say goodbye to suburbia You don't have...

[Originally by Buffalo Springfield] Oh, hello, Mr Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season ...

One man standing on the plains of Abraham Watching the damaged sunrise One man standing near the edge of a quiet breakdown I watch the sea, it helps to anchor ...

So many things I think about When I look far away Things I know -- things I wonder Things I'd like to say The more we think we know about The greater the unknow...

1 Tide Pools When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline, It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet A complet...

A quantum leap forward In time and in space, The universe learned to expand The mess and the magic, Triumphant and tragic, A mechanized world out of hand Comput...

Science, like nature, Must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same State of integrity, It will surely serve us well Art as expression,...

I'm runnin' here, I'm runnin' there I'm lookin' for a girl 'Cause there's nothin' I need, there's nothin' I want more in the whole wide world Well, I need it q...

You just don't get it What it is well, you're not really sure You move like you're walking on this ice Talking like you're still insecure Time is a spiral -- ...

He's a rebel and a runner He's a signal turning green He's a restless young romantic Wants to run the big machine He's got a problem with his poisons But you k...

did I have the dream? or did the dream have me? set off on a night-sea journey without memory or desire drifting throught lost latitudes with no compasee and ...

I knew he was different in his sexuality I went to his parties as a straight minority It never seemed a threat to my masculinity He only introduced me to a wide...

A certain measure of innocence Willing to appear naive A certain degree of imagination A measure of make-believe A certain degree of surrender To the forces of...

It went right by me -- At the time it went over my head I was looking out the window I should have looked at your face instead It went right by me -- Just anot...

It's not a place It's a yearning It's not a race It's a journey It's not an act It's attraction It's not a style It's an action It's a dream for the waking It...

All of the seasons And all of the days All of the reasons Why I've felt this way So long So long Then lost in that feeling I looked in your eyes I noticed emoti...

The whiteness of confusion Is unfolding from my mind I stare around in wonder Have I left my life behind? I catch the scent of ambergris And turn my head, surp...

A wave toward the clearing the sky All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view A billion other voices are spreading other news All this time we'r...

If I could wave my magic wand I am made from the dust of the stars And the oceans flow in my veins Here I hide in the heart of the city Like a stranger coming ...

Basic elemental instinct to survive Stirs the higher passions Thrill to be alive Alternating currents in a tidewater surge Rational resistance to an unwise urg...

My uncle has a country place That no one knows about He says it used to be a farm, Before the Motor Law And on Sundays I elude the Eyes, And hop the Turbine Fre...

i see red it hurts my head guess it must be something that i read it's the colour of your heartbeat a rising summer sun the battle lost -- or won the flash to f...

All that we can do is just survive All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive Ragged lines of ragged grey Skeletons, they shuffle away Shouting guards ...

Nature has some new plague To run in our streets History some new wrinkle We are doomed to repeat Fugitives at the bedroom door Lovers pause to find and open st...

I can learn to resist Anything but temptation I can learn to co-exist With anything but pain I can learn to compromise Anything but my desires I can learn to g...

Sunlight dances through the leaves Soft winds stir the signing trees Lying in the warm grass Feel the sun upon your face Elfin songs and endless nights Sweet wi...

Nothing blooms In a loveless room You've got to want it You've got to want it Who's the fool Where apathy rules? You've got to want it You've got to want it I...

I've stood upon my mountaintop And shouted at the sky Walked above the pavement With my senses amplified All my nerves are naked wires Tender to the touch Some...

A memo to a higher office Open letter to the powers-that-be To a God, a king, a head of state A captain of industry To the movers and the shakers -- Can't every...

The way out Is the way in The way out Is the way in Out of touch With the weather and the wind direction With the sunrise And the phases of the moon Out of tou...

[Originally by Love] When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a man I'd sit inside a bottle and pretend that I was in a jam In my lonely room I'd sit ...

[Originally by The Yardbirds] Shapes of things before my eyes, Just teach me to despise Will time make men more wise? Here within my lonely frame, My eyes just...

How many times do you hear it? It goes on all day long Everyone knows everything No one's ever wrong Until later Who can you believe? It's hard to play it safe...

I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall to the ground then I wake up So I get out of bed put on my shoes and in my head Thoughts fly back to the br...

Meant to tell you Tell you from the start Meant to show you What's inside this shallow heart But I could not find the words Worthy enough to say I slipped alon...

Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbow's end To cast its gold your way Countless ways You pass the days Waiting for s...

As the waves crash in On the western shore The wind blows fierce from the east Wavetops torn into flying spindrift (Spindrift) As the waves crash in On the wes...

Like the fly on the wheel, who says, "What a lot of dust we're raising" Are you under the illusion That you're part of this scheme? Seems like a lifetime ago Yo...

Trust to your insticnt If it's safely restrained Lightning reactions Must be carefully trained Heat of the moment Curse of the young Spit out your anger Don't ...

Trick of the light Or just A loss of perspective Flaw in the grand plan Just The way it is Looks good from a distance But The closer I come It Becomes more dau...

Sprawling on the fringes of the city In geometric order An insulated border In between the bright lights And the far unlit unknown Growing up it all seems so o...

[Originally by Eddie Cochran] Well, I'm gonna raise a fuss I'm gonna raise a holler About a working all summer Just to try to earn a dollar Well, time I called...

Packaged like a rebel or a hero Target mass appeal To make an audience feel He really means it Package the illusion of persona Careful to conceal The fact that...

I wasn't walking on water I was standing on a reef When the tide came in Swept beneath the surface Lost without a trace No hope at all No hope at all Oh, sweet...

High on the sacred mountain Up the seven thousand stairs In the golden light of autumn There was magic in the air Clouds surrounded the summit The wind blew st...

Well, I'm lookin' at you, and I'm wond'rin' what you're gonna do Looks like you got no friends, no one to stick with you till the end Take yourself a friend Ke...

All of the seasons And all of the days All of the reasons Why I've felt this way So long So long Then lost in that feeling I looked in your eyes I noticed emot...

I see the Middle Kingdom between Heaven and Earth Like the Chinese call the country of their birth We all figure that our homes are set above Other people than ...

A hot and windy August afternoon Has the trees in constant motion With a flash of silver leaves As they're rocking in the breeze The boy lies in the grass with...

Big money goes around the world Big money underground Big money got a mighty voice Big money make no sound Big money pull a million strings Big money hold the p...

One humanoid escapee One android on the run Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun Trying to change its program Trying to change the mode -- crack the cod...

Grim-faced and forbidding, Their faces closed tight, An angular mass of New Yorkers Pacing in rhythm, Race the oncoming night, They chase through the streets of...

Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge of adrenali...

I am born I am me I am new I am free Look at me I am young Sight unseen Life unsung My eyes have just been opened And they're open very wide Images around me Do...

Crying back to consciousness The coldness grips my skin The sky is pitching violently Drawn by shrieking winds Seaspray blurs my vision Waves roll by so fast Sa...

The whiteness of confusion Is unfolding from my mind I stare around in wonder Have I left my life behind? I catch the scent of ambergris And turn my head, surpr...

Another endless day Silhouettes of grey Another glass of wine Drink with eyes that shine To days without that chill at morning Nights time out of mind Chorus Dr...

Look! The mist is rising And the sun is peaking through See the steps grow lighter As I reach their final few Hear the dancing waters I must be drawing near Fee...

If we're so much the same like I always hear Why such different fortunes and fates? Some of us live in a cloud of fear Some live behind iron gates Why such dif...

I Into Darkness As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willow Dale, emerge from the forest shadow Fording the River Dawn, th...

Proud swagger out of the schoolyard Waiting for the world's applause Rebel without a conscience Martyr without a cause Static on your frequency Electrical stor...

Living in the Present Tense When you lose the past And the future makes no sense You're living in the Present Tense Crawling out, secure and confident Imbued w...

[Originally by The Who] I've looked under chairs I've looked under tables I've tried to find the key To fifty million fables [Chorus:] They call me The Seeke...

Love is born with lightning bolts Electro-magnetic force Burning skin and fireworks A storm on a raging course Like a force of nature Love can face with the st...

We can walk our road together If our goals are all the same We can run alone and free If we pursue a different aim Let the truth of love be lighted, Let the lov...

Begin the day with a friendly voice, A companion unobtrusive Plays the song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Off on your way, hit ...

Like the fly on the wheel who says 'What a lot of dust we're raising' Are you under the illusion That you're part of this scheme? Seems like a lifetime ago You ...

There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas The trouble with the maples, ...

There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas The trouble with the maples, ...

A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you He smiles and says he's pleased to meet you Beneath his hat the strangeness lies Take it off, he's got three eyes Tru...

Now it's come to this It's like we're back in the Dark Ages From the Middle East to the Middle West It's a world of superstition Now it's come to this Wide-eye...

We've got nothing to fearbut fear itself? Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy? Not the faulty units in this mad machinery? Not the broken contacts in emoti...

Time and motion Wind and sun and rain Days connect like boxcars in a train Fill them up with precious cargo Squeeze in all that you can find Spontaneous elatio...

I turn my back to the wind To catch my breath, Before I start off again Driven on without a moment to spend To pass an evening with a drink and a friend I let ...

A modern-day warrior Mean mean stride, Today's Tom Sawyer Mean mean pride Though his mind is not for rent, Don't put him down as arrogant His reserve, a quiet ...

Nothing can survive in a vacuum No one can exists all alone We pretend things only happen to strangers We've all got problems of our own It's enough to learn t...

Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight Trails of condensation held In narrow paths of white The sun is turning black The world is turning gray All the st...

Girl before the mirror Appraises her disguise Child become a mother Tries to fix her eyes No more of his excuses It has to be today She can keep her fantasy If ...

How many times Do we tire of all the little battles Threaten to call it quits Tempted to cut and run How many times Do we weather out the stormy evenings Long t...

Well, I see you standin' there with your finger in the air Ev'rything we do, you wanna leave it up to you Who do you think you are? You think you are a star, tr...

I've gone flying, trying to meet you You've been hiding, riding me to a state Like this Give me that window to, Give me that window to, Give me that window to ...

The night is black, without a moon The air is thick and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill Features distorted in the flickering light, Fac...

Driving away to the east, and into the past History recedes in my rear view mirror Carried away on a wave of music down a desert road Memory humming at the hear...

I get up at seven, yeah, and I go to work at nine I got no time for livin' Yes, I'm workin' all the time It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than ...

"To seek the sacred river Alph To walk the caves of ice To break my fast on honey dew And drink the milk of paradise" I had heard the whispered tales Of immort...

Just another hunter, like a wolf in the sun Just another junkie on a scoring run Just another victim of the things he has done Just another day -- in the life o...