only look towards what purpose we've been sent
And wait until the time is now

Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
Better hold on tight if you wanna know how
Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
You have been chosen

Imagine you can tell us all apart
From prophecy or old wives tales
Or from the warnings of a singular birthmark
But these are merely all false trails

Wisdom spat from the whirling chair
Shaking the bars when they stop and stare at me

Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
Better hold on tight if you wanna know how
Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
You have been chosen now

The faceless followers knelt in prayer
Near whited sepulchres and lightly coded software

Freedom of speech
But we have no voice
Freedom of spirit
But we have no choice

Given no help
To meet these demands
Given no help
It's out of our hands

Never turn around, never look behind
Gotta turn the water into wine

Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
Better hold on tight if you wanna know how
Take a leap of faith if you wanna find out
You have been chosen now



Waiting for the flood

(Mitchell/Nolan/Pointer)

Many times this world has been my playground
An endless field of images, not too profound
I let you read between the lines if you think you can
Part of someone's grand design

Of sainthood, childhood
Slipping through our fingers

There it is in black and white
For you to shout out loud
But all those empty promises
Just sow more seeds of doubt

Let my vision smother you in heartache
It freezes like the venom from a rattlesnake

It really doesn't matter now
The end will be the same
It really doesn't matter how
The world will rise again

There's nothing you can do
To stop the river flowing blood
The betting man has played his hand
He's waiting, waiting

Look for me in everything material
I live and breathe philosophy and spiritual escape
You'll find me in the films and in the theatres
Through the minds of novelists and orators

It really doesn't matter now
The end will be the same
It really doesn't matter how
The world will rise again

There's nothing you can do
To stop the river flowing blood
The betting man has played his hand
He's waiting for the flood

You walked with me before, you know
We crossed this land before, you know
You talked with me before, you know
You held my hand before, you know

It really doesn't matter now
The end will be the same
It really doesn't matter how
The world will rise again

There's nothing you can do
To stop the river flowing blood
The betting man has played
And we're just waiting for the flood

You followed me too far
And it's too late to turn around
You followed me too far
To stop the world from being drowned

There's nothing you can do
To stop the river flowing blood
The betting man has played
And we're just waiting for the flood



The butterfly man

(Mitchell/Nolan)

He waits in the dark
For lives, misguided and wrecked
The catcher of innocent souls
He's proud of his human collection

Of losers who give up the chase
Of winners who fail to look 'round
He creeps up behind the fallen and blind
They're gone with hardly a sound

Save me!
Oh, somebody reach out a hand
Save me!
From eternity caught in the grip of the butterfly man

He waits in the dark
For the scent of anger or hate
He hides behind ignorance
And it's never for long that he has to wait

A gentle caress
Is enough before fear takes a hold
The warning signs come far too late
By then he'll have captured your soul

Save me!
Somebody reach out a hand
Save me!
From the agony caught in the grip of the butterfly man

Save me!
Oh, somebody reach out a hand
Save me!
From eternity caught in the grip of the butterfly man

I've been here for so long
Don't even know what my purpose ever was
I don't even know where I belong

Through the years I've been waiting
Even time has lost it's meaning
Don't even know where I belong

Can't ever turn from this path
Don't even know what alternatives there are
Perhaps I wandered too far

I've been here for so long
Don't even hope for an end to all of this
I have no choice but to carry on

There you are
Fighting to escape from the womb
Dying in the snares of your chosen beliefs
Were you not set free far too soon?

There you are
Bathing in the warmth of creation
Drowning in the blood of your chosen beliefs
Prisoners of fate living in a state of sedation

Save me!
Oh, somebody reach out a hand
Save me!
Oh, somebody reach out a hand

Save me!
From eternity caught in the grip of the butterfly man

He waits in the dark
The catcher of elegant souls
Extravagant souls
Belligerent souls

He waits in the dark
His arms open wide
Never too short
Never too tall

He'll take them all



Ghost in the firewall

(Mitchell/Nolan/Pointer)

Look for me here
It's blacker than the night
Look for me here
But don't throw me in the light

Keep me on the inside
A part of the team
Keep me on the inside
I don't care what that means

Ooh, like the ghost in the firewall
Ooh, like a virus in the system
Ooh, like the ghost in the firewall
Let me in, let me fade away

Look for me here
My name is Legion
Look for me here
We are many, we are one

Keep me on the inside
Lost in the crowd
Keep me on the inside
Don't try to force me out

Ooh, like the ghost in the firewall
Ooh, like a virus in the system
Ooh, like the ghost in the firewall
Let me in, let me fade away

Let me in, let me fade away
Let me fade away



Climbing the net

(Mitchell/Nolan/Pointer)

I can see the other side
Keeping my head bowed down
I can see them all around
Dead staring eyes

Donning their ascension robes
Waiting for the time
Shouting down below
I told you once before, I told you so

Gotta build a tower
Need a better line of sight
We're climbing up the net
We're reaching for the sky

Gotta keep on rising
Take a ray of burning light
We're climbing up the net
Through the sky

I can see the other side
Try to keep a hold
Take the rollercoaster ride
On some binary code

Speaking in a single tongue
Think a single thought
Touching everyone
Reaching out, we've been here before

Do I join in the race? Keep my enemies near
Am I forced to embrace this modern Veneer?
Will I ever break free from this house of cards?
The truth is the victim, it was dead from the start

Gotta keep on rising
Take a ray of burning light
Gotta keep on rising

We're climbing
We're climbing up the net
We're climbing
We're reaching for the sky

We're climbing
We're climbing up the net
We're climbing
We're reaching for the sky

We're climbing up the net
A ray of burning light
A better line of sight
We're reaching for the sky

We're climbing up the net
A ray of burning light
A better line of sight
We're reaching for the sky



Moviedrome

(Mitchell/Nolan/Pointer)

Stay down
Like a shadow in a hallway
Watching all the blues and greens
As I hide from the glare of the monitor screen

Run fast
Like a shadow in a subway
Try to remain unseen
As I hide from the glare of the TV screen

We're all sucked in
Part of the core collective
We're all dragged in
Blind to the cause, we've been selected for

Elected for

Stand still
Like a ghost in the firewall
Watching all the blues and greens
As I listen to the rhythm of the fax machine

What will I be when winter comes again?
And we're wrapped up in furs and life has begun again
And it hurts to be away from you
From the world you made so well

What will I be when the summer comes once more?
And we're naked and weak in the eye of the sun once more

We're all sucked in

Leave it on the net - demands the optimist
No room for slaves to high tech reform
Maybe there's a way to save the pessimist
He could make it to the hills and ride out the storm

Formulas are set - declares the analyst
This is the road for everyone
Maybe we can hide, continue to exist
With a crate of bottled water and a sawn off shotgun

Try to survive
Don't look into his eyes
Try to stay alive
Don't look into his dead dead eyes

You can send me codes
From the safety of a chat room
In your grey ether clothes
I have looked into your soul

Looked into your soul

I'm sitting with my head in the radiogram
Waiting for some sign of a ghost or a little green man
Glued to the glowing of a sun behind the plastic hood
And the bass heavy tones that ooze from the pores in the wood

Oh, no! I can't go there again
Oh, no! Was this ever meant to be?

I'm sitting on the floor with the book in my hand
Dreaming of the world in a way that only children can
And I listen for the emanating sounds from the hidden choirs
The message in the radiant valves and red hot wires

Oh, no! I can't go there again
Oh, no! Was this ever meant to be?

To think it has come to this
Ruled by indifference, underlying waves of doubt
Such arrogant self reliance
Too far we have travelled out

Nervous in our sentience
Ordinary people, objects and events
Now is a time of foolish fears
Emotions run high and needless tears are shed

He has the face of a friend
And shall reach across the world into every home
We invite him in and offer no defence
And with every given soul he reaches for his throne

He has the face of an angel
As he leads us in the dance
Until we find ourselves alone

So we're standing in the moviedrome
Staring at the shadows and the falling lights
Prisoners forever in the moviedrome
Letting all the pictures be the guide to our fragile lives

Did we ever really learn?
Did we never really learn?

The human race has found its own true home
The dwelling places of these high tech lies
The few that see the world beyond the moviedrome
Must march on through the wilderness of fantasy, false images and pride



Friday's dream

(Mitchell/Nolan/Pointer)

What I dream tonight may rest with me
'Till morning comes again
From the truth comes light
We're vulnerable as we shelter from the rain

This is a place where all I touch
May not be as it seems

When I close my eyes I pray that you
May shield me from this pain
Hidden from my sight
So dangerous as we shelter from the rain

This is a place where all I touch
May not be as it seems
And still we go on waiting
For Friday's dream

It's a world that's far away
From the sound of people calling
Free me from these chains

It's a moment of escape
As the blood of fallen angels scars the earth
Tearing at the innocent once more

What I dream tonight may rest with me
'Till morning comes again
Weakened by our doubts
We cling to this as we shelter from the rain

It's a world that's far away
From the sound of people calling
Free me from these chains

It's a moment of escape
As the blood of fallen angels scars the earth
Tearing at the innocent once more

It's a world that's far away
From the sound of people calling
Free me from these chains

It's a moment of escape
As the blood of fallen angels scars the earth
Burns the earth
Tearing at the innocent once more

When I close my eyes I pray we'll find
A shelter from the rain
What I dream tonight may rest with me
'Till morning comes

'Till morning comes and I wake up