The pedestrian auto walkway
Rushes on and its crowded today
See the jets as they jump behind you
And the light from the street it blinds you now
Neon buzz and the smell of Bombay
There's a lady who stopped; she's so afraid
And the business men fall into her
With black cases flying she goes down

You've got some new momentum
You better keep on going
Tomorrow soon will be your yesterday
You've got some new momentum
You better keep on going
You've got to move to make it all the way

So you feel like you crashed God's party
And its winding down to doomsday
How he used to call upon you
Now the wind is gone and it's got you down
But He is still in the midst of your mayday
Crying out don't stop, don't be afraid
Keep on pressing through the changes
The momentum that's moved you will not stop now

You've got some new momentum
You better keep on going
Tomorrow soon will be your yesterday
You've got some new momentum
You better keep on going
There's one who's going to take you all the way

You've got some new momentum
You better keep on going
Tomorrow soon will be your yesterday
You've got some new momentum
Move forward always knowing
Our God is going to lead you all the way

What is there to say?
My face it may betray me
Thoughts have all escaped me
I'm not sure what to do
I know straight away
I never give a maybe
She looks like an actress
Waiting for her cue

Cuz now I don't think anything at all
So I'll say nothing and I hope you think I'm deep

She continues on and doesn't seem to notice
I'm the caring listener, "Tell me is that true?"
She pauses and says "Well?", expecting some great saying
Silently I'm praying; I haven't got a clue

But now I don't think anything at all
So I'll say nothing and I hope you think I'm deep
Now I don't think anything at all
So I'll say nothing and I hope that you don't think that I'm a creep

While I'm ever contemplating
Awkwardness is multiplied
Suddenly I'm eloquating
Something more has touched...my mind!

What is there to say?
My face it may betray me
Thoughts have all escaped me
I'm not sure what to do
I know straight away
I never give a maybe
She looks like an actress
Waiting for her cue

But now I don't think anything at all
So I'll say nothing and I hope you think I'm deep

Fantasy worlds and barren lands
Made for unknown Gods by trembling human hands
Deceived from birth
Conceived to die
Misleading lives without a reason why

Disillusioned souls causing bloody tears
The truth masquerading with Smoke and Mirrors
Disillusioned souls causing bloody tears
The truth masquerading with Smoke, Smoke and Mirrors

Born into bondage as slaves to sin
Inspired to run races that we cannot win
Cleansing water
In a bowl of brass
Remains in obscurity behind darkened glass

Disillusioned souls causing bloody tears
The truth masquerading with Smoke and Mirrors
Disillusioned souls causing bloody tears
The truth masquerading with Smoke and Mirrors

Now we are here among the blind
We seek to know the one beyond all space and time
Reality is sweet for sure
For all of this confusion there is only one cure

He's planted in our souls
Life beyond the years
We will not be victims of Smoke and Mirrors

He's planted in our souls
Life beyond these tears
And we shall be like Him beyond
Smoke and Mirrors

Out here pn a desert plain
I can't explain tho call of my soul
East looks bleak and west looks black
There's something here but the way I don't know

Weathering sky
I don't know why you call to me
Call to me again
Weathering sky
I don't know why you call to me
Let me be again
Like it would never end

High in the hills and far away
There's a land that flows with yesterday's rain
Where tomorrow waits with an open hand
And we live the plan of love beyond pain

I've swam the oceans and been dry
I've chased the mountains and been low
But now l see the sky
Turn me from the ways that hurt
Set my sights up to the sun
To the sun
Fill me with fire!

Weathering sky
I don't know why you call to me
Call to me again
Weathering sky
I don't know why you call to me
Let me be again
Like it would never end

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer; I've got so much to say
I'm not schizophrenic I just haven't had my medicine today
People they act like they've never seen a king before
But when I just am that I am they tell me "there's the door"

Cause I am a freak
A riddle
The kind you love too little
I am the one you call "the other"
You can't take home to mother
I am the angst
Provider
The ultimate outsider
And I'm not welcome where the work is
Not in your homes or in your churches...

My tongue is the pen and I feel inspired unusually today
My bed at the bridge kept me warm all night til the sky turned cold and gray
At noon on the corner I shout out words they can't ignore
But nobody sees they're too busy making money, kids and war

But I am a freak
A riddle
The kind you trust too little I am the one you call "the other"
You can't take home to mother
I am the angst
Provider
The ultimate outsider
And I'm not welcome where the work is
Not in your homes or in your churches...

Cry me a river
With an ocean all around
So many strangers live right among you now
There right here right now

But I am a freak
A riddle
I may have just a little
But I might be a savior or a brother
A someone's long lost mother
Maybe I'm not like the scriptures
And I don't fit your pictures
But maybe an angel's come between us
Who knows?
I might be Jesus...

I am a freak
A riddle
The kind you love too little
I am the one you call "the other"
You can't take home to mother
I am the angst
Provider
The ultimate outsider
But maybe an angel's come between us
Who knows?
I might be Jesus...

I. Introduction

(instrumental)

II. Never Pass Away

With the slip of hand and a boombox
I am the man with a plan and the drum drops
Going off to a place that I never knew
I don't mind doin' time goin' solo
All I know is there's so much I don't know
I'm just lookin' for something to fall into

I'm in control of having no control
Drudgery days I had to let them go
And seek to find
Some peace in my mind
And not look behind..

But there's a road in the blazing sun
There's a flow that I can't outrun
I've got to find my life my way
To a world that will never pass away

In the heat of the day pushin' midnight
I got nothing to say that's a sound byte
Life's too short for a bottom line
I don't want a cliche or a peep show
Say what you gotta say and then let's go
The world is waiting on the other side
There was a way I lived in humble pride
Everyday in spiritual genocide
The desert sand
The days of the damned
Left holes in my hand..

Chorus

But there's a road in the blazing sun
There's a flow that I can't outrun
I've got to find the truth my way
To a world that will never pass away
Never pass away

The bottom drops out and you're nowhere
Nowhere to be found
Lost in the tide of the other side
In the city of the sound
It didn't take long to change you
Promised son to a re-run
But truth never dies so lift your eyes
Forward to the... forward to the sun

III. Losing Your Soul

Live like a face card hangin' in the window
You're a big band blastin' on the 4th of July
You got the babe Nazi - got the paparazzi
You can tell them all to wait 'cause their rules don't apply.. let's fly!

Jesus you loved him once when you were little
But you can't play second fiddle for some pie in the sky
Now the nice kid's cigar is gettin' fatter
But it doesn't really matter cause we're all gonna die
And you lie ־ while gain the world's control
You might be losing your soul

The Calendar kid and the thin Mad Hatter
They all keep getting fatter from the seeds that you sow
It's really all you; you tell them you're a family
You're a racer-embracer but it's all just a show
So you lie ־ you might hit the highest goal
But you're still losing your soul
So you lie - while you gain the world's control
You might be losing your soul
You might be losing your soul

IV. The Mystery

Looking back you're reminded of the numerous losses
The losses that you knew from a previous plauge
In spite of the knowing and rather than growing
You come up with excuses intentionally vague

With obvious lack of heartfelt care
Stripped of all feeling emotionally bare
You find yourself just standing there
Trying to explain the mystery

Stagnant love of former generations
Built on pretense and conditional love
Your selfish soul feeds on past revelation
Holding the mystery in history's glove

With obvious lack of heartfelt care
Stripped of all feeling emotionally bare
You find yourself just standing there
Trying to explain the mystery

V. Some Kind Of Yesterday

Timeline
Leaves you blind
No sense of depth or height
Beyond you
You step into
The raining rays of light

Some kind of yesterday
Is calling you from world's away
And I've come to let you know
You can't get in without letting go
Let this other life
Have
Control

Sunshine
Pours like wine
You're standing at the door
A silhouette
It's like you've met
But never known before

Some kind of yesterday
Is calling you from world's away
And I've come to let you know
You can't get in without letting go

Some kind of yesterday
Is calling you from world's away
The one you believed it then
Whoever love for you will never end
He's calling you to rise
Rise Again!

VI. Never Pass Away (Reprise)

So the days in the desert sand
Makes the way for the happy man
By the blood of his greatest friend
Comes the one who has life again

'Cause there's a road in the blazing sun
There's a truth that I can't outrun
He led me out from the smoke and ash
With his love that'll never pass away

There's not much more I have to say
But that this place isn't far away
For all the ones lookin' for a place to stand
For everyone stranded in the cold dry land

There's a road in the blazing sun
There's a truth that I can't outrun
He'll raise us up from the smoke and ash
There's a love that'll never pass away

There's a day that'll surely come
When we'll rise like the blazing sun
And we'll stand glorious at last
In a world that'll never pass
It'll never pass
It'll never pass away