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Killing Touch - One Of A Kind lyrics



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01. The Touch

[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
Will you bare your soul to me? I can take you higher
Use my fantasy, the whole world's a make believe

Love keeps burning inside of him
He can't fail his Mission, we can't lose him again

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
You may not believe in me, what I've got is true
I disregard your will

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Heed the still small voice there within your mind
Your life won't be an endless sacrifice
Yeah, bricks are falling, you can't look back
Lightning 'n' sparks flying 'round your hand

You've got the touch
Hear the warnings, the fear and the visions that come to you
Everybody knows you're the one
There ain't no liars here, all that you've got is your touch

[Rev. Simmons:]
Kiss the pouring rain, don't play coy with me
Feed your heart

[Jennifer:]
Heed the still small voice there within your mind
Your life can't be an endless sacrifice
Bricks are falling, you can't look back
Lightning 'n' sparks flying 'round your hand

You've got the touch
Hear all the warnings? Remember the flowers that bloom in your name
Everybody knows you're the one
There ain't no liars here, all that you need is your touch

[Sheriff Paul "The Law" Kovacs:]
She's got me hanging somehow, don't ever try to change things around
She's got you hanging somehow, don't try to change us and you may stick around

[Carol "The Heart" Jordan:]
Hold me, see me? There ain't no angels around
I can't let you all be inside of me?

[Tommy:]
Hold still, feel me?
There ain't no angels around
I can't let you all be inside of me?
Hold me (Hold me?), see me (See me?)
There ain't no angels around
I can't let you all inside of me?

[Paul:]
She's got me hanging somehow? (I can't blame her, she loves you)
She's got you hanging somehow but now's my turn to play
Don't ever try to change us
Well, I don't give a damn if they say you're the chosen one

[Jennifer:]
You've got the touch
Hear the warnings, the fear and the visions that come to you
Everybody knows you're the one
There ain't no liars here, all that you need is your touch

02. Black Ice

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
I was falling on The Black Ice
When I lost and found a better way
There's a hidden spot in our minds
Awakened by a mistake

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Always trust your sight
(Trust your sight?)

[Tommy:]
You can't see what I see
(What I see?)
I just can't believe my life was gone

Winter's gone the sun ain't shining
I've never had to worry
When I think about the wheels of life
I wonder 'bout the wonder wheel

[Jennifer:]
Don't look back, move on
(Don't look back)
Fast forward and more
(And more?)

[Tommy:]
I just can't believe my life's in vain?

03. Wheel Of Fortune

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
Driving faster, speeding back to her
Now our hearts are getting closer
Hold tight through the night before we come undone? (Before we come undone)
Well this pumping headache won't leave me alone? Oh, no

Didn't have to pretend, pretend what I'm feeling
All the colours are bright, too bright to steer?

I want to get back and never ever have to live this way
Life is more than this and you know it so well
I want to get back and never ever have to leave these rails
There is so much left that I have to say and you know it so well

Life keeps turning, spinning out of time
Way beyond the point of no return, yeah
Drifting, creeping here between these walls
All I ever believed in is lost and gone? Yeah?(Can you see what I see?)

We keep rolling the dice, the karma was on to me
Didn't know God was playing with my life

I want to get back and never ever have to live this way
Life is more than this and you know it so well
I want to get back and never ever have to leave these rails
There is so much left that I have to say to you

[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
You reveal the secrets
[Tommy:]
(I reveal the secrets?)
Mike:
I would never share them?
[Tommy:]
(You've got to share them with me?)
Mike:
I just can't believe it
(I just can't believe it)
[Tommy's Mind:]
No way I'm going to share it with you?

[Tommy:]
Got to dig deeper, I don't know you so well
All it takes is a little touch
Can you feel the shock when our hands finally meet?
You should see what I see?

Past and future? Open pages?

I was falling on the Black Ice
When I lost and found a better way
There's a hidden spot in our minds
Awakened by a mistake
?You keep going until you find me
?You keep going until you find me

I want to get back and never ever have to live this way
Life is more than this and you know it so well? (And you know so well?)
I want to get back and never ever have to leave these rails
There is so much left that I have to say

I want to get back and never ever have to live this way
(Never gonna live this way?)
Life is more than this and you know it so well? (And you know so well?)
I want to get back and never ever have to leave these rails
There is so much left that I have to say to you

[Mike:]
You reveal the secrets
[Mike:]
I would never share them
[Mike:]
I just can't believe it

[Tommy:]
Got to dig deeper, now I know you so well
All it takes is a little touch
Can you feel the shock when our hands finally meet?
You should see what I see

[Tommy's Mind:]
My head keeps spinning, all I see is dark
Everything fades? Fades to black?

04. Mimicking Death

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
Let my senses fall and rove too deep, yeah
'Till I know what I've lost without you
Wondering how to make amends, yeah
I can't make a move, I'm stuck inside of me

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Lost your faith
Life goes on without you
No one's there when you're falling apart
Lost your soul
You can't live without it
Please believe what I'm saying

[Dr. Robert "The Science" Richards:]
Call your inner voice and pray
Seems like you're lost in time, lost in time?

[Carol "The Heart" Jordan:]
You've got to live
Don't know just what I'm feeling
Get all the memories left behind
You'd better live or die before leaving
Before drifting apart again

[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
So you're chasing your fears away
But a coma is more than you could bear
[Tommy's Mind:]
Still don't know just what it really means
While he works his fingers right to the bone, yeah

[Jennifer:]
Lost your faith
Life goes on without you
No one's there and your brain falls apart
Lost your soul
You can't live without her
What you give ain't what you've got

[Robert:]
Call your inner voice and pray
That's when you lose your sight and you get your real sight?

[Carol:]
You've got to live
Don't know just what I'm feeling
Find all the memories left behind
You'd better live or die before leaving
Before drifting apart again

I beg you please
A magic shot is all it takes
You're hanging by such a fragile thread
A different way
A whole brand new beginning
Pick up the pieces, one by one?

[Tommy:]
My blood ain't spilling but I need an ignition
Holy water is flowing through me
Counting the drops 'til I get salvation
Here's my turn, my destiny

I can see the day when I was alive
Seize the day 'cause tomorrow may never come
I can't see the day I'll be coming back alive
While nothing stays the same

I can see the day when I was alive?
I can't see the day I'll be coming back alive?
Please believe what I'm saying? Yeah!

[Carol:]
You've got to live
Don't know just what I'm feeling
Find all the memories left behind
You'd better live or die before leaving
Before drifting apart again

I beg you please
A magic shot is all it takes
You're hanging by such a fragile thread
A different way
A whole brand new beginning
Pick up the pieces, one by one

[Tommy:]
I can see the day when I was alive?
I can't see the day I'll be coming back alive?

I can't see the day I'll be coming back alive?

I can see the day when I was alive?
I can't see the day I'll be coming back alive?

05. The Danger Zone

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
God they're tracing a map with my dead zone
Hundreds of lines trying to explain the unknown
We have so many true lies going deep down our souls

[Rev. Mike Simmons:]
There's a voice locked inside? Can you heal all their lives?
Yeah, you're lost like those tears in the sand
(See what's inside?)? Will you come back alive?
(Shadows apart?)? Take our shadows apart?
Yeah, arise like a blue dawn again? Will you come back to me?

[Tommy:]
God, the map of my brain leads to nowhere
They X-marked the spot where future and past pass me by
No one ain't fooling myself or trying to deceive me

[Rev. Simmons:]
(All of the crimes?)? There's a voice locked inside
(All of our lives?)? Can you heal all their lives?
Yeah, you're lost like those tears in the sand
(See what's inside?)? Will you come back alive?
(Shadows apart?)? Take our shadows apart?
Yeah, arise like a blue dawn again?

[Dave "The Friendship" Maxwell:]
The Dead Zone, Tommy knows we're living in danger
In The Dead Zone, in fear forever living in danger

[Rev. Simmons:]
There's a voice locked inside? Can you heal all their lives?
You're lost like a tear in the sand
(All of the crimes?)? Will you come back alive?
(All of our lives?)? Take our shadows apart?
Arise like a blue dawn again

[Dave:]
The Dead Zone, Tommy knows we're living in danger

The Dead Zone
[Tommy:]
Yeah?
[Dave:]
Tommy knows we're living in danger
[Tommy:]
In fear we're constantly living in danger
Don't you know I tried to change events but they keep following me, yeah
[Dave:]
In the Dead Zone, in fear forever living in danger
[Tommy:]
In fear forever and I feel like a stranger
Don't you know that I feel like a stranger

[Dave:]
In the Dead Zone
[Tommy:]
In the Dead Zone
[Dave:]
Tommy knows we're living in danger
[Tommy:]
In fear we're constantly living in danger
Don't you know I tried to change events but they keep following me, yeah
[Dave:]
In the Dead Zone, in fear forever living in danger
[Tommy:]
I'm constantly, constantly living in danger
Yeah, it makes me feel like a stranger? I'm only a stranger?

[Rev. Simmons:]
(All of the crimes?)? There's a voice locked inside
(All of our lives?)? Can you heal all their lives?
(?Can you hear all their lives?)
You're lost like a tear in the sand
(See what's inside?)? Will you come back alive?
(?Will you come back alive?)
(Shadows apart?)? Take our shadows apart?
Yeah, arise like a blue dawn again

(All of the crimes?)? There's a voice locked inside
(All of our lives?)? Can you heal all their lives?
(?Can you heal all their lives?)
Yeah, you're lost like a tear in the sand
(See what's inside?)? (See what's inside?)? (Will you come back alive?)
(Shadows apart?)? Will you come back alive?? Take our shadows apart?
Yeah, these lies fall too deep in your heart? (Arise like a blue dawn again?)

?These lies fall too deep in your heart?

06. One Of A Kind

[Dave "The Friendship" Maxwell:]
Running scared among the fields of passion, like a fire grown cold
Left the glory under lock and key where my gold is slowly turning to rust

All the blame you've been taking will only get this far
Give yourself a new meaning, don't waste your precious time

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
I'm one of a kind, no turning back
I can see where I'm going
I'm holding to now, ain't looking back
Though my hands are tied and I can't break free
One of a kind, no turning back
We're heading right to nowhere
I'm one of a kind and I don't know why?
For you are still within?
There I can see you, Carol?

See the sun going down while I'm thinking, living just a vivid past
By the time I realize my mistakes all the curtains will be fallen apart

[Dave:]
All the pride you've been hiding will only get this far? (?Will only get this far..)
Give yourself a new living, don't waste your precious heart

[Tommy:]
I'm one of a kind, no turning back
I can see where I'm going
I'm holding to now, ain't looking back
All the choices made and the vows I forgot
One of a kind, no turning back
We're heading right to nowhere
I'm one of a kind and I don't know why?
For you are still within?
There I can see you?

Almost taken by the rocking movement, my numbers are the colours of life
My securities? They only feed my aversion to look straight in your eyes

[Dave:]
All the love you've been saving will only get this far? (?Will only get this far..)
Give yourself a new meaning, don't waste your precious life

[Tommy:]
I'm one of a kind, no turning back?
I'm holding to now, ain't looking back?
One of a kind, no turning back?
I can see where I'm going, yeah
I'm one of a kind, now I'm alive?
Though my hands are tied and I can't break free

I'm one of a kind, no turning back
I can see where I'm going? (I can see where I'm going?)
I'm one of a kind and I don't know why?
Though my hands are tied and I can't break free
(I want to see you Carol?)
One of a kind, no turning back
We're heading right to nowhere? (Heading right to nowhere?)
I'm one of a kind and I don't know why...
For you are still within?
There I can see you, Carol?

07. Tommy's Cane

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
Whenever I touch things I do share a tale, we're born to make mistakes
I have to rely on my beloved cane, I see things that are never wrong

Some would call it a miracle? A gift, a sign, a damnation?

I'd rather stay out of trouble
Whenever I'm touching my walking cane I rewind all the memories

[Dave "The Friendship" Maxwell:]
Ain't your fantasy but a score of the lives we live

Tommy's walking cane

[Tommy:]
Humans deserve to know the twist of fate and fill the blanks of pain
Anytime we get along, anytime we leave the wire uncut
Until a spike of ego comes and makes our consciousness kill the faith

Some would call it a miracle? Thoughts and dreams become physical?

I'd rather stay out of trouble
Whenever I'm touching my walking cane I rewind all the memories?
Only trying to achieve the best for you and me

[Dave:]
Then no one is satisfied? (No one is satisfied?)
Once they know, here comes another tear
Keep moving your human pawns, ain't your fantasy but a score of the lives we
live

Tommy's walking cane
Tells a lie we live in

[Tommy:]
I can see all the way, you just stay away from me
I can see all the way? Memories, prayers, goals, mistakes?
Play on player, don't pull the plug, still two wrongs don't make a right?

I can see all the way? (All the way?)? I'm a lightning rod, don't care 'bout fame
Can't break down this wall of shame, still two wrongs don't make a right?

[Dave:]
Tommy's walking cane
Tommy's walking cane

[Tommy:]
Justice falls and I know that I can't play God
Though we are of a single mind, no one is a single thing? Yeah!

[George "The Mask" Adams:]
I can lead all the nations, take my hand and I'll take up your fears
In a World made of honour and pride, will this God give me all that I need to get by?

[Tommy:]
Adams can't lead a Nation, grab my hand and I'll show you my fears
In a World made of sorrow and lies, will your God give me all that I need to get by?

I'd rather stay out of trouble
Whenever I'm touching my walking cane I rewind all the memories?
Only trying to achieve the best for you and me

[Dave:]
Then no one is satisfied? (No one is satisfied?)
Once they know, here comes another tear
Keep moving your human pawns
Ain't your fantasy but a score of the lives we live, yeah?Of the lies we live?

08. Still Walking

[Instrumental]

09. Walls Of Sympathy

[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
Life? Life can deceive when you're falling in love
Light? (Light?)
Our weakness revealed and I can't let it be?

Lost and led astray, I'm ready to fall
But it just can't be this way

[Dr. Robert "The Science" Richards:]
Hold on to the edge of your life
Codes and combinations to open your mind

[Dave "The Friendship" Maxwell:]
I've got a feeling you just can't believe it
Knowing may bleed you dry

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
The light? The lie that I feel?

[Mike:]
Lights out!

[Tommy:]
Nobody's there for me? (Nobody's there for me?)
Nobody makes you fall? (Your fall?)
There is a path we walk on by

See the Country Fair waiting for me
I remember my last day of a life that was meant to be right, perfect and
flawless? That was a lie

I'm never complaining, I keep on trying
Not bad is not so good

The light? The lie that I feel so close

[Mike:]
Lights out!

[Tommy:]
Nobody's there for me? (Nobody's there for me?)
Nobody makes my day? (My day?)
There is a path we walk on by
[Mike:]
Pledge your gift, take my sage advice
Lights out!
[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Nobody's there for you? (Nobody's there for you?)
Nobody waits for your call? (Your call?)
You're climbing these walls of sympathy
Afraid of the dream

I want you to know, I want you to know me? (Get to know me?)
Don't see any clouds? Don't fall, seek the truth you once lost

[Mike:]
Life? (Life?)
Life can deceive when you fall? (When you're falling?)
Light? (Life?)?
Your weakness revealed, let it be

[Tommy:]
Fallen between two hearts, no one can see how I'm striving
And the times that we had have become my release here? Yeah!!!

[Mike:]
Life? Life can deceive when you're falling in love
Light? (Light?)?
Our weakness revealed and I can't let it be
Light? Light? Light can deceive when you're falling
(Light can't deceive when you're falling)

Lights out!

[Tommy:]
Nobody's there for me? (Nobody's there for me?)
Nobody makes my day? (My day?)
There is a path we walk on by
[Mike:]
Pledge your gift, take my sage advice
Lights out!
[Jennifer:]
Nobody's there for you? (Nobody's there for you?)
Nobody waits your call? (Your call?)
You're climbing these walls of sympathy

[Mike:]
Lights out!

[Tommy:]
(Nobody's there for me? Your fall?)
There is a path we walk on by
I'm filling the lack of faith
[Mike:]
Lights out!
[Jennifer:]
Nobody's there for you? (Nobody's there for you?)
Nobody waits for your call
You're climbing these walls of sympathy
Afraid of the dream?

10. Falling Away

[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
Some people bleed, some people try to forget
Can't you see where they're going through?
You're one of a kind, your heart's on the line

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
No one is there? No one believes you when you lie
Until we find the way, yeah
Unable to touch, afraid of the hurt

[Mike:]
Don't you know that our fear is our only creation
(Our fear is our only creation)
Let's get rid of these rusty chains
There's only a way to salvation
Taking you down will only make them believe in their lies?
And you know they lie

[Tommy:]
I'm falling away? (I'm falling away?)
No holds barred, I can't keep my feet on the ground? Yeah?
I'm falling away? (You've got to see?)
See what you get when you open your mind
When you're falling away? (I'm falling away?)
While you're begging to stay? (Begging to stay?)
There's no denial when you're lost
?When you're falling away? When you're falling away

Some people hear, some people don't understand
Never tell what we are here for
[Mike:]
You're one of a kind, your hearts on the line

[Tommy:]
Yeah, I feel so unsure? So unsure though I have the touch
Nothing depends on you, yeah
I'm on of a kind, my heart's on the line
(My heart's on the line?)

[Mike:]
Don't you know that our fear is our only creation
(Our fear is our only creation)
Let's get rid of these rusty chains
There's only a way to salvation
Taking you down will only make them believe in their lies?
?Yeah, and you know they lie

[Tommy:]
I'm falling away? (I'm falling away)
No holds barred, I can't keep my feet on the ground? Yeah?
I'm falling away? (You've got to see?)
See what you get when you open your mind
When you're falling away? (I'm falling away?)
While you're begging to stay? (Begging to stay?)
There's no denial when you're lost
?When you're falling away? When you're falling away

?When you're falling away? When you're falling away
?When you're falling away? Oh, yeah?

[Mike:]
Our fear is our only creation
Let's get rid of these rusty chains
There's only a way to salvation
You know taking you down will only make them believe in their lies?
And you know they lie

[Tommy:]
I'm falling away? (I'm falling away?)
No holds barred, I can't keep my feet on the ground? Yeah?
I'm falling away? (You've got to see?)
See what you get when you open your mind
When you're falling away? (I'm falling away?)
While you're begging to stay? (Begging to stay?)
There's no denial when you're lost
?When you're falling away?

11. Justify

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
I was falling on The Black Ice
When I lost and found a better way
There's a path we always walk on by
Keep going until you find me

Never had to fight
(?Had to fight?)
Never had to hide
(?Had to hide?)
I just can't believe my faith is gone
(?Is gone away?)

Yeah, winter's gone the sun ain't shining
Lust is just another round of lies
All the pain all around anyway
Can't change the way I want it

Never had to fight
(?Never had to fight?)
Never had to hide
I just can't believe I'm still alive?

Carol "The Heart" Jordan:
Justify
All the friends we've lost so far
Justify
All the memories left behind
Justify
(Just if I?)
All of the things you can't explain
Justify?
All the whys come and go? You?

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Justify
All the times you did not care
"Not this time"
Fill your lungs with brand new air

Justify
Don't forget your love comes first
[Tommy "The Touch" Michaels:]
Mystified
Are the ones who just don't believe in me, no?

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Giving for too long will make your soul come alive
With the hunger that you tried to hide behind your little heart
All the things you're still trying to change won't just make it right
Realize you're just a human being, yeah?

[Tommy's Mind:]
Start giving yourself a little more
Giving yourself a little more
Your heart lies rotten to the core
Keep giving yourself a little more
Giving yourself a little more
[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
Stick to the wills we all know so well
(Giving yourself a little more, giving yourself a little more ?)
All the little things can turn your world around
?In between there lies another way?
Another way?

[Tommy "The Touch" Michaels:]
Just if I?
[Tommy's Mind:]
?All the lives you will not save?
You still got time
Stop hurting yourself, don't give me another round of lies

[Jennifer "The Devotion" Michaels:]
Living for the day may take your two sides apart, whoa?
(Sides apart?)
[Tommy's Mind:]
No compromises?
[Tommy "The Touch" Michaels:]
All the days I've lost asking why
Why the hell am I bleeding?
?You should see what I see?

12. Thy Will Be Done

[George "The Mask" Adams:]
Pain?
Sorrow and pain grow like dust, things they went too far this time
Lust and power have become an obsession, words are flying like venomous arrows

Money and power, lust and greed? To be is just to be perceived

[Tommy "The Touch" Wolf:]
Numbers?
Numbers don't lie we all know, I can still foresee so many things
The theatre of our mind is always open, a little touch is all I need

Love and justice, passion and peace? You can try but can't have it all

[George:]
Hey man, I'm stuck here and feel betrayed by you
[Tommy:]
Hey you, believe in what's real without any proof

[George:]
Guilt?
My blame and guilt are frozen? Well, nothing stays the same anyway
Unlikely for Tommy and his beloved cane, justice created addiction

Love and justice, passion and peace? To be is just to be perceived

Hey man, I'm stuck here and feel betrayed by you
[Tommy:]
Hey you, believe in what's real without any proof
[Rev. Mike "The Faith" Simmons:]
(Thy will be done?)
Hey man, your enemy lies inside of you? (Thy will be done?)
Hey you, will you ever erase the World with a nuke?

Armageddon?

[Rev. Simmons to Tommy:]
Unless you want to be there? Are you sure you want to spin that wheel again?
I could have never changed your mind? You'll never be the same again?

[Rev. Simmons to George:]
Unless you want to be there and feel like a man walking on the moon
There's always just the other side, where lions sleep and fields are dry?

[Rev. Simmons to Tommy:]
Unless you want to be there? Don't ever let your darkened side win
Alight your path and bless your heart, no reason to enslave your mind

[Rev. Simmons to George:]
Unless you want to be there? (Do you want to be there?)
And leave the world without any trace of us
You can always change your mind, don't hide again that part of you

[George:]
Hey man, I'm stuck here and feel betrayed by you
[Tommy:]
Hey you, believe in what's real without any proof
[Rev. Simmons:]
(Thy will be done?)
Hey man, your enemy lies inside of you?
(Thy will be done?)
Hey you, will you ever erase the World with a nuke?
?With a Nuke? With a Nuke?
?With a Nuke? Oh, my?

13. One Of A Kind

[Acoustic Version]
[Japanese Bonus Track]