Have you ever been to no mans land Dying of thirst, never ending desert and sand What lies ahead is the same as the rear view The sentiment is overwhelming, when it hurts you Is it ok to say i'm not ok Going through the motion, I think tomorrows today I've tried to add some color, to shades of grey I've tried to find direction from the wrong way I know this thought is played out, a broken record Won't find a solution with little effort But have you ever lost faith in everything Did you feel the strain from the pain you were carrying I've lost the battle, but I'm trying not to lose the war Its a cold world, that cant be ignored Is it ok to say i'm not ok Going through the motion, I think tomorrows today I've tried to add some color, to shades of grey I've tried to find direction from the wrong way Is it ok to say i'm not ok Going through the motion, I think tomorrows today I've tried to add some color, to shades of grey I've tried to find direction from the wrong way I'm not ok I'm not ok

I am becalmed in virtue Lost to nothing on a bay of dreams Warm weather and a holocaust The tears of God flow as I bleed Left to die by two good friends Abandoned me and put to sleep On a shore where oyster beds Seem plush as down And ripe enough for the Luxor dream Recall the dream of Luxor How fluids will arrive As if by call or schedule Resume through the morning tide Where entry is by seaweed gate And plan the plan of dreams To lose oneself in reverb In all that is and all that seems So ladies, fish and gentlemen Here's my angled dream See me in the blue sky bag And meet me by the sea The oyster boys are swimming now To claim me back from the dead The creatures back from vertigo They fear to fall but haven't fell Will reclaim tries and try again The oyster boys are swimming now Hear them chatter on the tide Of the lost and language lost Hear them chatter on the tide We understand, we understand, we understand And so do I We understand, we understand But fright is real and so am I So ladies, fish and gentlemen Here's my angled dream See me in the blue sky bag And meet me by the sea The entry to lost vestibule Opens on the bay An instant shape of mercury Lost and then retained An instant is an eyelash Caught on the tide Imaginos! Below this bay And then besides... The oyster boys are swimming now One deal is what we made Forest keys and whirlwind cold Green trees too and keys of gold Even locks that won't explode When the skies become a scroll Having lost its interest See that's the deal we made Just to join the Öyster Cult The Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand—Blue Öyster Cult We understand, we understand, we understand

Well I bumped inside the magic man And he laid some tricks on me He said, "You do need help my friend" I whispered... "Obviously" He laid a spread of Jacks and Queens And he bade me take my pick But every face it had your face I cried out, "I am sick" Sick of hauling your love around Want to run my train alone But the engine tracks straight through your heart And weighs me like a stone Oh, it's a hard load to love you It takes up all my time, having you So familiar Like last life's Nursery rhyme So I gave away the pictures And your golden ring And the phone calls you sent me And the silver birds that sing Then the man he told me something That really brought me down Your things were thrown away, it's true But you were still in town Sick of hauling your love around Wanna run my train alone But the engine tracks straight through your heart And weighs me like a stone Oh, it's a hard load to love you It takes up all my time, having you So familiar Like last life's Nursery rhyme The magician left a message It flashes when I hide Accept the chains of loving Accept or else remove yourself from her side And do without her love And I lay back with a steel chain I keep it by my side I could mail a letter to you but I still Have my pride Sick of hauling your love around Wanna run my train alone But the engine tracks straight through your heart And weighs me like a stone Three times I've sent you back from me Three times my bones gone dry And three times I've seen the shooting shark Lighting up the sky Oh, it's a hard load to love you, babe It takes my breath away The fourth time round Is the last time round There's nothing else to say.

I have this feeling that my luck is none too good This sword here at my side don't act the way it should Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave And it howls! It howls like hell! I'm told it's my duty to fight against the law That wizardry's my trade and I was born to wade through gore I just want to be a lover, not a red-eyed screaming ghoul I wish it'd picked another to be its killing tool Black Blade, Black Blade Forged a billion years ago Black Blade, Black Blade Killing so its power can grow It's death from the beginning to the end of time And I'm the cosmic champion and I hold a mystic sign And the whole world's dying and the burden's mine And the black sword keeps on killing 'til the end of time Black Blade, Black Blade Bringing chaos to the world we know Black Blade, Black Blade And it's using me to kill my friends Black Blade, Black Blade Getting stronger so the world will end Black Blade, Black Blade Forcing my mind to bend and bend I am the Black Blade Forged a million billion years ago My cosmic soul it goes on for eternity Carving out destiny Bringing in the Lords of Chaos Bringing up the Beasts of Hades Sucking out the souls of heroes Laying waste to knights and ladies My master is my slave Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You poor fucking humans

Maybe I'll see you again baby And maybe I won't Maybe you've bought your ticket Gone back to Detroit Airplanes make strangers of us all Give us distance Much too easily. Jim says some destinies Should not be delivered But you and I seen now baby That still they are Winning it makes losers of us all 'Cause the dice roll So indifferently. Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in solitude But I wish I could wrap myself In thee. Tonight it's hot, without you Tomorrow'll be cold Winter will come along Driven by snow Love it makes strangers of us all When we part Oh so thoughtlessly Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in solitude But I wish I could wrap myself In thee. Once we breathed the breath Of sweet surrender Pure, pure Arab air filled our Atmosphere But pride it makes stars of us all Until we fall For everyone to see. So, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in stranger's arm But I wish I could wrap myself In thee. I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in solitude But I wish I could wrap myself In thee.

I've walked a path of darkness Just to open up my mind I've learned of hidden secrets Scattered through the depths of time And at my father's side I witnessed Things I can't describe "They must be evil!" The people cried So when the prince went missing And the mob was at our door The king would not see reason Only vengeance, only war My father's neck held in his grip Until he was no more But the prince was still alive And I said May never a noble of your murderous line Survive to reach a greater age than thine Because I'm the Alchemist creator of your fears I'm the Sorcerer, a curse throughout the years And I won't rest 'til no one's left The ending of your line Their lives are a prison of my design Through the generations They'd forgotten of my vow But still my will be done My curse stays stronger even now A tragic fall, a fatal brawl All accidents each time Oh, why must the young kings die? May never a noble of your murderous line Survive to reach a greater age than thine It was I The Alchemist creator of their fears It was I The Sorcerer, a curse throughout the years You won't escape your tragic fate The ending of your line Your life is a prison of my design The final king's obsession To escape impending doom Reached beneath the castle walls Where he chanced upon a room And there he found his enemy The man who cheated death And I said With my last breath It was I The Alchemist, creator of your fears It was I The Sorcerer, I've waited all these years And when you pass you'll be the last A victim of your line Your life was a prison of my design 'Cause I'm the alchemist I've lived a dozen lives I'm the sorcerer The face of your demise And from these walls I've made you all Believe this curse of mine The engineer Of all you fear The terror in your mind I've sacrificed Eternal life For justice for the crime Our lives were a prison of my design