Queensrÿche Album

A child alone in daddy's room
The gun was hidden here
No one home to catch me when I fall
A young man now in a private chair
I've seen the world through a bitter stare
But my dream is still alive
I'm going to be the best I can

I want to be a busy man
I want to see a change in the future
I'm gonna make the best of what I have
I want to write for a magazine
I'm gonna be the best they've ever seen
I know I'll win if I give it all I can

I won't let go, gonna make the grade
No, I won't let go
To be the best man, the best man that I can

Back street hoop star you've got it good
You were the wonder
Of the crumbling neighborhood
Now taking bids on the next six digit plan
Showed me that my will survived
The tragedy that came into my life
Giving me hope and the new start
That I have

I won't let go, gotta make the grade
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can

Step by step I dream the plan
From my chair to walking man
This constant dream is on my mind
Chase the light I see ahead
Luminate the path I tread
I live to be the best I can

Now I'm moving forward
And I'm never looking back
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack
On a roll and I'm never slowing down
I won't be torn between slowing down
I won't be torn between
The man in the chair
And man that's in my dream
I'm going to melt the two men into one

I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set
No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can

Another hungry look in her eyes again.
Pacing the floor, the hunt begins.
Skin-tight leather provides my pleasure.
Wake my fear, surge with the pressure.
Walk away and leave forever, do I dare?
Raise my eyes, she stands.
Holding out healing hands... are you happy now?
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to, with fear as my friend,
I walk the thin line one more time for you.
Addictive face pretending,
don't speak the word.
Forbidden sin relenting,
I barely heard... screams of entry blur my vision.
Wake my fear of Divine Intervetion,
crawl away and bleed forever,
if you dare.
Hand on mouth the game goes on.
Love, our stage to play upon. Are you happy now?
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to.
With fear as my friend I walk the thin one more time for you.
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to.
I walk the thin line for you,
do just what you say to,
with fear as my friend I walk the thin line one more time for you.

Every time I leave
you say you won't be there.

And you're always there.

Every time I cry your name at night,
you pull close and say it's alright.

I look in your eyes, just like the rain.
Washing me, rain wash over me.

Touching your face, I feel the heat of your heartbeat
echo in my head like a scream.
What you do to me!

Waited so long I can't wait another day without you.
Jet City Woman.
Its a long way, home to my
Jet City Woman.
I see her face everywhere, can't get her out of my mind.

Whenever I'm alone I'm thinking,
there's a part missing from my life.
Wonder where I'd be without your love
holding me together now I'm
watching the time tick, tick away.
Face grows longer every day.
Fortunes are lost on the women I've seen
but without you I can't breathe.

You're the air to me!

Waited so long, I'm all alone thinking about you.
Jet City Woman.
Got to find my way home to her.
Jet City Woman.
I see her face everywhere I look!
Jet City Woman.
Just a thousand milles and I'll be there
Jet City Woman, to make the clouds go away.
Time for some blue sky!

Waited so long now the plane's delayed
an hour, reminds me of all our days apart.
Hold on, just a little longer.
Jet City Woman.
Wonder where I'd be, you're the air to me.
Jet City Woman.
Eyes like the rain, rain down on me
Jet City, Woman.
No more nights alone
I'm almost home now.
Jet City Woman.
Close my eyes, I'm there in my Jet City.

You've got a cardboard house,
live there all the time.
Keep your memories tied with string.
The gace that many once-adored,
twenty years gone maybe more.
Somewhere you lost the dream.
Mama watched your every move,
but now you're alone. She's been gone for a while.
Daddy left some time ago,
fading years pass too slow.
He's the only one, could make you smile -
oh, you're still crying -
big city bound.
Gonna make you mark.
Read your name in the lights all the ads and people say,
beauty lets you get your way.
Tried your best to prove them right but living on the
streets ain't bad,
sad people make you glad.
Pardon me, could you spare some change? -
oh, you're still crying -
street corner girl.
Watch the crowd go by,
fill your tin can with life.
Summer days tend to slip away like your men you couldn't
make them stay.
Hard to choose, whiskey or a wife.
Sometimes you wonder where's the end.
Where you goin' where you been?
Happiness seems so hard to win.
Most never care to find, Della Brown sees it all the time.
Looking for that man to make her smile again.

Don't slam the door on your way out
Don't leave without saying goodbye
Another long distance night alone
You leave me wanting, always leave me wanting more

Last word today, coming home to stay?
Wouldn't that be nice, for awhile?

But now my take-out food is growing cold
And the candle's burned a hole in the floor and I'm
Still waiting for the ring of the phone

I'm all alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Guess I'll leave the light on for you
It's just another rainy night without you

Listen, there's a foghorn blowing from the coast tonight
Remember makin' love in the rain?
Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound
Raindrops taste like tears without the pain

I'm not much without you, can't leave if I wanted to
Maybe that's why you stay around

But tonight I'll sit here tending the fire
And pace the floor one hundred times in an hour, and
Check the voice-mail for a message you've called
(-You have no new messages in your mailbox-)

I'm all alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Waiting by the phone alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Guess I'll leave the light on for you...

I know I've said it before
Hate the sound of the closing door
And your footsteps walking away...

But now my takeout food is growing cold
And the candle's burned a hole in the floor, and I'm
Still waiting for the ring of the phone

I'm all alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Waiting by the phone alone
And it's another rainy night without you
Guess I'll leave the light on for you
It's just another rainy night
It's just another rainy night
It's just another rainy night without you

Next message saved, Saturday at 9:24 p.m.
Sorry, I'm just..... it's starting to hit me like a ummmm, ummmm... a 2 ton heavy thing.

Last night the word came down
Ten dead in Chinatown
Innocent, their only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time
Too bad, people say
What's wrong with the kids today?
I tell you right now they've got nothing to lose. They're building EMPIRE!

Johnny used to work after school
At the cinema show
Gotta hustle if he wants an education, he's got a long way to go
Now he's out on the street all day
selling Crack to the people who pay
Got an AK-47 for his best friend, business the American way.

Eastside meets Westside downtown
No time, the walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling?

Black man trapped again
Holds his chains in his hand
Brother killing brother for the profit of another, game point, nobody wins
Decline, right on time
What happened to the dream sublime?
Tear it all down we'll put it up again. Another EMPIRE?

Eastside meets Westside downtown
No time, (no time) the walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling? EMPIRE!
Can't someone here stop it... ?

In the fiscal year 1986 to 87. Local state and federal governments
Spent up to a combined total of 60.6 million dollars on law enforcement.
Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars,
And accounted for only 6% of all federal spending.

By way of comparison, the federal government spent 24 million more on space exploration,
And 43 times more on national defense and international relations than on law enforcement.

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling? EMPIRE!
Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling? EMPIRE!
Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it calling? EMPIRE!
Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can someone hear us coming? EMPIRE!

Protests in New York.
Listen to the call of the wild.
Brother, sisters carrying signs.
Breathe deep before it's too late.
The sky is falling burning your eyes.
Down in New Orleans river's boiling.
Nothing living, nothing to eat.
Thank the Lord, daddy's working 8-5.
Paying the doctor, baby's got cancer.
Give and take.
Has all we've learned been wrong?
Look around at what we've taken too long.
Resistance - shouts the man on the right.
Can't solve the problem overnight.
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild.
Burning coal.
Got to keep the company warm as the rain keeps killing the trees.
Cut'em down quick.
Pay the man his wage,
he's making paper to fuel the "Information Age".
Out in the midwest, hear the roar of the plough,
turning grassland into sand.
Got to feed the people more everyday but the wind keeps
blowing the land away.

Resistance - liberal opposition crying violation. Stop the madness.
Resistance - through the din, one voice we should hear.
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild.
There's no easy solution.
The price is high, and it's time to pay.
Turn on the century vision, focused on a better way.
Resistance - shouts the man on the right.
Can't solve the problem overnight.
Resistance - liberal opposition crying violation.
Stop the madness.
Resistance - through the din, one voice we should hear.
Resistance - listen to the call of the wild.

Hush now, don't you cry,
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye.
You're lying safe in bed,
It was all a bad dream spinning in your head.

Your mind tricked you to feel the pain,
Of someone close to you leaving the game (of life).
So here it is, another chance, wide awake you face the day.
The dream is over, or has it just begun....?

There's a place I like to hide,
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize, and you were scared.
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears
Retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind.

Commanding in another world
Suddenly you hear and see this magic new dimension
I........will be watching over you
I........am gonna help to see you through
I........will protect you in the night
I........am smiling next to you
In silent lucidity

Visualise your dream,
Record it in the present tense,
Put it into a permanent form,
If you persist in all efforts,
You can achieve dream control...
...dream control...
...dream control...

::whispered:: (help me)

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see.
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down; a new world will begin.
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly.

A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize your dream's alive
You can be the guide, but...
I........will be watching over you
I........am gonna help to see you through
I........will protect you in the night
I........am smiling next to you

All eyes were staring you floated through the room.
Armed with your razor smile cutting to the bone.
My voice fell useless you flashed a quick "Hello".
Feeling the fool, could you tell it showed?
But that was "Sometime Ago.",
a memory vague and fading slow,
of somewhere I'd been.
HAND ON HEART.
Apromise, a word, and a voice.
HAND ON HEART.
A rhythm of hope and choice will keep us together.
I don't know know if I can reach that high.
It's a long way to fall. Hauntingly holding my fate, with a gaze.
Like a child mesmerized by the candle's flame.
Oh what lies behind those eyes, I could only guess.
That certain way you stood apart from all the rest.
Now where is "Sometime Ago"?
When everything moved in slow - mo-tion.
Caught by my watering eye.
HAND ON HEART.
A promise, a word and a voice.
HAND ON HEART.
A rhythm of hope, and a vision of choice.
HAND ON HEART.
Promising I'll never go.
HAND ON HEART.
For reasons you'll never know.
Together through thick and thin.
Lose or win, I'll be there for you.
Strange how the mind changes time and time again.
Things once important, now pale in comparison.

I promise girl, Hand On Heart.

In my life, giving me hope and the new start that I have.
I won't let go, gotta make the grade. No, I won't let it go
To be the best man, the best man that I can.
Step by step I dream the plan from my chair to walking man.
This constant dream is on my mind.
Chase the light I see ahead.
Luminate the path I tread.
I live to be the best I can.
Now I'm moving forward and I'm never looking back.
Straight ahead, focused on the big attack.
On a roll and I'm never showing down.
I won't be torn between the man in the chair
and the man that's in my dream.
I'm going to melt the two men into one.
I won't let go, gotta make the grade I set. No, I won't let it go
to be the best man,
the best man that I can.

Back in '86 February and a special number I just had to know is this feeling real.
I picked up the phone I was one step closer to the danger zone.
I knew she'd steal my heart away but I know I couldn't live without her love.
The first time she looked at me, her smile stayed on my mind.
I never thought I'd ever meet a woman of her kind.
Now I'm lost in a lover's daze and I'm not walking out.
Gonna give my heart away and hope that she will always stay.
Call for me, run to me whenever you are lonely.
Call for me, run to me lady love.
Won't you come and show me that precious smile and maybe stay for a little while.
Close the door, toss the key, say that you will always be my one and only.
Looking back it seems to me the message in her eyes left a lasting spell on me.
A feeling I can't hide.
Now I'm lost in a lover's daze and I'm not walking out.
Gonna give my heart away and hope that she will always stay.
Call for me, run to me. Whenever you are lonely call for
me, run to me my lady love.
Won't you come and show me that precious smile
and maybe stay for a little while.
Treat me to your sense of taste and style.
Together we can walk the miles.
Close the door, toss the key, say that you will always be
my one and only.

You and I
long to live like the wind upon the water.
If we close our eyes, we'll maybe realize
there's more to life than what we have known.
And I can't believe I've spent so long
living lies I know were wrong inside,
I've just begun to see the light.

Long ago there was a dream,
had to make a choice or two.
Leaving all I loved behind,
for what nobody knew.
Stepped out on the stage, a life
under lights and judging eyes.
Now the applause has died and I
can dream again...

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines,
criticize the words they're selling.
Think for yourself and feel the walls
become sand beneath your feet

Feel the breeze?
Time's so near you can almost taste the freedom.
There's a warm wind from the south.
Hoist the sail and we'll be gone,
by morning this will all seem like a dream.
And if you don't return to sing the song,
maybe just as well.
I've seen the news and there's
not much I can do...alone

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words--images
they know will please us?
I'll take what's real. Bring up the lights.

Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone that sees what's going on?
Read between the lines,
criticize the words they're selling.
Think for yourself and feel the walls...
become sand beneath your feet.

Lyrics Coming Soon...

Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me to the one who lives there,
She once was a true love of mine.

Tell him the love that i have still burns,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
And that the heart in silence still yearns
She once was a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough fair?
Are you going to scarborough fair?