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In a Perfect World​.​.​. The Best of Human Drama

by Human Drama

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1.
Death of an angel so beautiful to me Shattered pieces fall to earth - Time can never heal The story is over now, all points have been made But when you hold out your hand I don’t see a thing You can reach for the stars, but take what you get here Was last December and all was milky white Came December again and all is black With hands to our mouths, we need food to live But it’s poison’s nature to kill if we choose to swallow You can reach for the stars, but take what you get here So far So far, so deep So deep it burns I burn until I cry I cry I die
2.
Soft voice, Soft appetite I’m hurt but I’m alright I’m still chasing echoes, who is to blame So call me a loser but I could be a killer Mythical tales are not what I write Because these colored eyes don’t want to fight Now I might fall down succumb to your shove And wondering, I know that I could be a killer
3.
For caring is a breeze that blows by And returns only when, only when it wants to So cry, cry little angel forever because You can’t wrap your arms around the wind Within lie the reasons for This tangled web we weave For love at once my shield and terror Destination and cause for living today And wanting to die tomorrow Why is my whole life spent chasing my demise You can’t wrap your arms around the wind Within lie the reasons for This tangled web we weave In my face you see the torture lines from days gone by But I was never touched these scars have risen from within me. For memory take a knife it’s quicker Plunge it deep into my soul Go ahead make me a weaker man And cry, cry little angel because You can’t wrap your arms around the wind Within lie the reasons for This tangled web we weave
4.
In stillness so much motion inside In silence within I hold a deafening cry My needs can never be satisfied For my love will never be realized I can almost feel your heart beating See confusion in eyes so clear The line between fascination and fear I battle a thought every second For I don’t feel as I was taught I want to swim the river forbidden I want to climb the mountain denied I can almost feel your heart beating See confusion in eyes so clear The line between fascination dnd fear My needs can never be satisfied For my love will never be realized I can almost feel your heart beating See confusion in eyes so clear The line between fascination and fear
5.
Fading Away 03:03
I can't tell what is right, what is wrong What is far, what is near Can't distinguish between truth, lies I fear I am fading Fading away I can't find my strength I really don't cherish the search anymore I'm left without breath from making points I won't make anymore I am fading Fading away I feel no need to borrow the crutches I borrowed before Or to make another speech whose theme justifies what I am I am fading Fading away I can't take the guilt - I feel like a thief when compared to my father He fed me then, he feeds me still What have I ever done I am fading Fading away
6.
Push a pin into my arm. I will bleed like anyone Pull it out and I forget On a trail blazed with words. One that I was lost upon The road that I depended on, I follow no more Tortured man take your hand, take it from the fire now Place it in cool water A hypocrite is one who prays only when he feels pain It’s time to open your eyes. So open your eyes I could wait a million years, look into a billion eyes To find another love like this I could wait a million years The slamming door the unseen wall The hurt I never could forget, I struggle to remember And take my hand from the fire refusing all intended scars You are cool water. Into you, I swim I could wait a million years, look into a billion eyes To find another love like this I could wait a million years Held still in one place for too long Gone blind to the miracle of saving I pray this angel in my eyes was put here to save my life Through your eyes I feel your soul What I feel I must believe What I believe I live This coming from a man who clenched the truth so tight in his hands. Then opened to find evil Found trusting love again I could wait a million years, look into a billion eyes To find another love like this I could wait a million years
7.
When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low, And resentment rides high, But emotions won't grow, And we're changing our ways, Taking different roads. Then love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again. Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side. Is my timing that flawed? Our respect runs so dry. Yet there's still this appeal That we've kept through our lives. But love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again. You cry out in your sleep, All my failings exposed. And there's a taste in my mouth, As desperation takes hold. Just that something so good Just can't function no more. But love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again. Love, love will tear us apart again.
8.
Sad I Cry 03:55
Are these the roses of which you speak Where you stop everyday to scheme Of what color you will paint tomorrow On the canvas hung today For I am a dreamer who fears never living his dream And what I wouldn’t give for just one embrace I picture it now and melt away Sad I cry Is that the sunset that moved you to tears The colors they strike you so deep It has risen on me every day of my life But could never set without you You are on a ship that is sailing as I yell from the dock, "Come back" For without the nerve to chance the storm We can never sail into the sun Sad I cry I am sad for my love for the painting I can have but never create How the most vivid red orange sunset can only be color to me I cry for my arms surround nothing - we can only hold what we are The dreamer will dream The ship it will sail without him into the sunset again Sad I cry
9.
Tired 02:19
How many times will you extinguish love’s flame? How many times will you deny holding the water? The coward has been played The weakest plan ever laid And I feel nothing but tired Why will you not confront your tears? How many more will you blame for what they destroy? The answer is clear, but you refuse to hear And I feel nothing but tired The answer is clear, but you refuse to hear And I feel nothing But tired Yeah
10.
See the water burning through my hands Fight to cleanse the stain again Feel the chilling wind rush by it tries to push all from memory Pick up the pieces of discarded trust I must learn to form that word again Remove the blind from blackened eyes That were told they did not see Shield the sunlight from my eyes It’s been so long since I have seen who I am I used to feel so much. Search please let us touch This forgotten love Hear the echo of wasted words ricochet in my emptiness As the raging flame of passion scorned reflects on my frozen skin Again On my skin until then Shield The sunlight from my eyes It’s been so long since I have seen who I am I used to feel so much. Search please let us touch This forgotten love I couldn’t see in my submission.The chains were attached to nothing The word love cannot love for you The word love, it cannot love for you Beneath the shell in darkness waits a timid heart To beat again for another And these blackened eyes and bloodstained hands Wait to give and receive Shield The sunlight from my eyes It’s been so long since I have seen who I am I used to feel so much Search please let us touch This forgotten love
11.
This is for everyone That I have ever loved Remember well I will never love again This is to everything That I have ever touched Remember well I will never touch again All that I held dear All has disappeared To the hope I carried Every second of everyday I release you I hope no more To whoever it was That I prayed everyday Wherever you are I ask no more All that I held dear All has disappeared This is for everyone That I have ever loved Remember well I will never love again
12.
When your bag of secrets opened up and spilled That radiant glow just disappeared You rained down from the clouds you were in Sometimes we can be so blind But how does pain so bad not bleed You push, you push, sometimes you don’t expect to fall But it’s the violent turning of the golden rule A lifetime of hell for every minute of heaven I know your heart is breaking Here in the waiting hour And I know it will never heal Here in the waiting hour So cross your fingers, or your heart Your idle wish commands no more The mirror you hate reveals all in this world you control Just empty out that bag of tricks Cause in this limbo they don’t exist Just like your vanity, your hopes, your prayers, your dreams Now did you hear the thunder when you realized Your very own hands reached in and tore your heart out I know your heart is breaking Here in the waiting hour And I know it can never heal Here in the waiting hour I know your heart is breaking I know your heart is breaking And I know how it feels the first time In the waiting hour I know your heart is breaking I know your heart is breaking I know your heart is breaking In the waiting hour
13.
I am a hero. I am an actor I’m this violent shade of blue I am newly discovered tension Still confused by yesterday I am a hero on a mission Staking claims, yielding none I am an artist with a vision Seeing hell, his destiny I know the simple sting of a tear Sends the star crashing to earth Dying in a moment of splendor For a moment the glory and the death are one the same I am an actor. So unfeeling Then a flower, I am crushed I am a villain, unstable and anguished Then an angel, you trust The heartless echo of memory Sends the actor whirling twirling, falling to his knees Dying in a moment of splendor For a moment the glory and the death are one the same I am a bubble, almost to bursting Swollen by unrelinquishing pride I am the shrinking remains of potential Never growing as I should Dying in a moment of splendor For a moment the glory and the death are one the same
14.
Loves' Way 04:54
Love, need we ask why Or wonder how Season's turn, feeling fade And slowly change It's just love's way Face to face, now we stand But miles away on different lands In different times our love lies We can't know why It's just love's way The journey was our only rhyme And reason to live this life The crossroads came to our separate ways We can't know why It's just love's way To your eyes I sing this song Words formed by pieces of a shattered heart Memory must fill the loss I feel It's just love's way
15.
Feel a shadow coming up behind me It's icy hand soon resting on my shoulder Mother do you know what it's like To be every bit the stranger in all that you know Hey mother where's your little daughter What do your arms surround Do you remember the eyes that saw you for the first time And never after Well they're here and looking fast behind me From side to side in every waking moment From oceans near and oceans far To the very biggest cities and towns so small These are the ways and the wounds of my world Every day I walk another mile and Every night I dream another dream where I curse everything I've ever loved I've destroyed every home that took me in I think of all the things that I would tell you I picture how so tight I would hold you And how I would forgive all I missed And cherish every second that we would spend Still I wait but how much longer Mother please put to sleep your little daughter I can't sleep I have no strenght My blood boils fast from this fire within These are the ways and the wounds of my wor
16.
My love I find myself in you Too long the search Will again we find? Put on your face my love Remember to forget The mirror lies One chance one love In this life was ours Your eyes to my soul Two hearts as one Put on your face my love Remember to forget The mirror lies There is nothing I can do There is nothing I can say But what is written here In music and verse I carry every second of you With me each day Your innocent smile And a single white rose From me you turn From truth we run In loss I die We are what love is Put on your face my love Remember to forget The mirror lies

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The absolutely stunning In a Perfect World is a generous 16-song "best-of" that cuts out all of Human Drama's weaker moments, bringing Johnny Indovina's most brilliant turns straight to the top and never once putting a single toe out of place. From the opening "Death of an Angel" and the impassioned vocals and rocking guitar scythe of "I Could Be a Killer" on to a kicking live version of "Dying in a Moment of Splendor," in which Indovina, backed by a piano and brushed drums, sounds so sincere as to be laughable but isn't at all, In a Perfect World becomes a potent reminder of just how devastatingly important Human Drama was to the American goth scene. With a mixed bag of traditional goth twists and American glam guitar, and an appreciation of startling musical turns with piano and strings, the songs resonate in a way not many expected. That brilliance is particularly present on the introspective "Love's Way," which captures the spirit of Steve Harley, just one of the glam icons whose vision Indovina so skillfully channels. Adding a few early nuggets (including "This Tangled Web" and"Fascination and Fear") and the wickedly fiddled "The Ways and Wounds (Of My World)" completes the painting, ultimately rendering In a Perfect World a masterpiece that is absolutely true to the band's rock-solid career and breathtakingly individual intent. ~ Amy Hanson, All Music Guide

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released January 1, 2000

2000 Hollows Hills Sound Recordings

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Since their formation in the early 80s, singer/songwriter/guitarist Johnny Indovina has guided Human Drama through over a dozen critically acclaimed albums and countless spectacular live performances, creating a beautifully intense collection of work, while gathering the band a deeply devoted following in America, and most notably Mexico. ... more

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