Wake


Wake
  1. Paradigm One
  2. June First
  3. Mother's Day
  4. Vial
  5. Filter
  6. Speed of Sound
  7. Oceanful
  8. Serpent-teen
  9. Moons & Suns
  10. Fall
  11. Sold
  12. god of 3 strings
  13. Nowhere Man
  14. to My Darling Whippoorwill
All songs written by Jyro.

Paradigm One

falling underneath again
enchanted words of evil men
wills will bow and wills will bend

prayers against my will i send
falling where i cannot stand

descending into depths again
prayers into the breach i send
when flesh grows thick
the blood flows thin

knees they bow and knees they bend
scream my soul into the wind

not by the power of man
but by the power of the living God
the power that preserves
beneath the hate beneath deceit
i will rise
i will rise up!

on the precipice again
falling where i cannot stand
scream my soul into the wind

flesh grows thick and blood flows thin
falling underneath again

not by the power of man
but by the power of the living God
the power that forgives
beneath the weight beneath defeat
you will rise
you will rise up!

in our final hour
You display Your POWER

now through the death of the Son of God
and through the powerlessness of man
despite the world and its disbelief
He will rise
HE WILL RISE!

Note from inside cover of 'Godspeed':
"A belief system. One Faith. One God. This track opened the album Wake; the first Mortal album recorded as a four peice band. Ed Giles Benrock played drums and percussion. Troy Yasuda played additional lead, rhythm, and effect guitars. Jerome played bass this time around and Jyro provided samples, guitars, keys and lead vocals."


June First

"for Mike & June and significant others"


hold my arms
hold my legs
i can't keep my feet on the ground
hold me down
i'm in love again

when she smiles
i believe
that the world
could stop spinning around
hold me down
i know it's real this time

real love never gives up!

will she run?
will she stay another season
more than the last?
will it pass
until i'm in love again

true love never gives up!

your pure love enduring
is always with me
never leaves me
never gives me up!

 


Mother's Day

she is someone
easy to believe in
my mother, my faith
she is moonglow when the night has fallen
my pathlight, my way
i could not wait, why should i wait
to tell her

she is shelter
when the storms are coming
my weather, my rain
she is destination
when i'm always running
i love her that way
i could not wait - how could i wait
to tell her

and though i've shown her many times
the love she's brought into my life
i'll never know how much it would mean
if i had told her everything

she's someone easy to remember
i've loved her that way

how could i wait, how could i wait?
we cannot second guess our fate

Note from inside cover of 'Godspeed':
"...another 'favored' track off Wake and yet another excursion into pop territory; Mother's Day enjoyed a substantial amount of airplay on its initial release. An Ode to the matriarchical institution!"


Filter

Flux, Cholera, Water, Rwanda

filter - save me
i am dying
i don't want to
become nothing

filter - heal me
fill what's empty
have compassion
spare my baby

cleanse me, filter
in your waterfall

filter - show me
signs and wonders
send down, filter
rain and thunder

drown me, filter
in your waterfall

stay alive!
survive for me
please hang on
be strong
because help is on the way

hang on
hold on
be strong
"love is not prideful"


Speed of Sound

i've come far to be here with you
farther than i thought i could
i've more courage now than i have ever
let on to you

and it's in the way you're moving
as uneasy as your smile
i can tell you're slowly dying
can we stop and talk awhile

now as far as i can remember
you've been running all your life
and it seemed you ran forever
'cause i was always left behind

now that i have caught up to you
there are things i have to say
like i'm happy to be near you
but i cannot stay

my love's an ocean
you are the moon
the stars - our windows
the sky is our room

these are more than simple changes
they are painful and profound
and you might consider pacing life
below the speed of sound

no i can't take your wounds from you
things you've done i cannot undo
i can only hope to love you
like the ocean loves the moon

i am an ocean
you are the moon
our life - the morning
our love is doomed


Oceanful

"..these leaves are turning, Leta"

have you waited long
for me to come around?
did you know that i was lost
hoping you would be the one
to find me?

all the wasted while
away from you my love
will fall in perfect time
like tears - back into my life
soon!

i'm turning down
my giving up
on principles

i'm throwing out
my bitter cup
in oceanfuls

five days together
is not enough for me
when it's forever
we'll have to wait and see

i'm throwing down
serious amounts of emptiness
how good that sounds!!


Serpent-teen

"your turn to kill
one stubborn will
one emotional flood

against the steel
your faith is sealed
beneath the skin"
- and blood!

one statement of fashion
leading you down
steep stairwells to madness
now you're pulling me with you

one step, one slip of the tongue
and your seduction's complete
you're twenty words away

fire-breathing serpent-teen

your spirit it burns
your scales they itch
you're changing your skin
every second chance you get

your eyes
your pitiful lies
i feel like giving you up
but you're not through with me yet

no, don't fall!
i'm holding on to a time
you were more than alive

fire-breathing serpent-teen
are you as afraid as you seem?


Moons & Suns

now the light is fading fast
if only it would last
our time has come and gone
yet I'm still holding on
to words I should have said
and what they would have meant
between old friends like us
between us

how do I begin to say
I've loved you since the day
we waited for the rain
and how it never came
and for the years to come
through a thousand moons and suns
how you've remained my friend
remember

one thing will never change
that's how I feel today
I know you're closer now than ever
let me close my eyes a minute
I'll start from the beginning
before life takes you from me
you have to know

now the night has come at last
our time is fading fast
just let me say
that I will love you always


Fall

...I fall down in praise


Sold

no rea$on to wound me again
i'm much too tired of pleading
i'm bleeding for you
$till you cut me!

four $ea$on$ poignant with change
blind and deafer than dead
what you crave i$ to $tay the $ame
$top and li$ten to me!

there'$ nothing le$$ beautiful
i'm $old, $old
there'$ nothing more pitiful
than $elling the $acred
no!

twi$ted ambition feeding your power
my pain
but i've been bought with a price
and no one can take that away
no, not from me!

there'$ nothing le$$ wonderful
you're $old, $old
there'$ nothing more $ini$ter
than $elling your brother

there'$ nothing more pititful
than $elling the $acred
than $elling your brother
than $elling your Saviour
no!


god of 3 strings

"our God is a jealous god"

I will be with you all day long
walking through rooms inside your home
and when the hours have quickly flown
I will be with you to stay on

I will be near you when you cry
if just to say I sympathize
and when it's more than you can take
I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes

I'll replace the fire light in your skies
I will be the wonder of your life

I will be with you all day long
I'll be the summer, wind and song
and when the sound of evening comes
I would've been with you all day long


to My Darling Whippoorwill

"to all our friends on the precipice of change"

how i miss you - our time together was short
and i wish i could've stayed. Here's hoping
our paths will meet again soon. Space flies
when we're together; but time wants to kill us,
there are too many doomsayers, and no one
believes in forever anymore - but i do. i need
you to believe in it too. Well, i need to move now
(guess i'm always movin'). I really should find
"home" someplace. With you maybe...
Anyway, before i go i want to leave you with
these words:
"stay awake, stay alive another season
we will meet in the sky,
in the sky"



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