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My Denial
03:29
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In my safe haven I'm protected
Free to take another breath
Answers to all my questions running rampant
Simple as it may seem
I cannot run
I cannot hide
I'm an angel
I'm the devil
And both I deny
Beating heart, could it beat any faster?
Sometimes I wish it would just stop
Strong stand the walls of my denial
Long stay the scars that it brings
I cannot run
I cannot hide
I'm an angel
I'm the devil
And both I deny
I can't take another second
I won't last another day
If there's 'cause let it be ever shouldered
Sometimes I don't know what I want
I cannot run
I cannot hide
I'm an angel
I'm the devil
And both I deny
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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 world
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3. |
A Single White Rose
04:16
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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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4. |
Somewhere
04:32
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Shadows run so mysterious
Silhouetted as they pirouette
Behind the stairs that take them farther from home
17th street, Tenth Avenue
The ice age fell so just deal with it
Put your gloves in your pocket boy, let's go to war
Light years from the parking lot I once played
And the bed last night where I laid
Open the curtains boy
It's time
Somewhere tomorrow's promise rings
Somewhere a Sunday choir sings
Somewhere is where I want to be
Time Square, it's a carnival
Were there lights? I failed to notice
But twenty seven needles lay
In the cracks where I walk
For all the dreams and the saviors we once knew
All the flags we waved without a clue
Open the curtains boy
It's time
Somewhere tomorrow's promise rings
Somewhere a Sunday choir sings
Somewhere is where I want to be
In New Orleans lies the punishment
Distorted eyes look past the crime scene
Year after year, waiting to be found
Somewhere tomorrow's promise rings
Somewhere a Sunday choir sings
Somewhere is where I want to be
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5. |
Love's Way
04:53
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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
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6. |
To Lover Her
04:04
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Look into her captive eyes
Her captive eyes
Climb into her web of thought
Her web of thought
You can take what you want
Brother get what you need
But to love her is wrong
Be careful what you believe
Surrender to her arms
They held you near to hide the cost
Into her love you sink
It's magic hold, it's magic hold
You can take what you want
Brother get what you need
But to love her is wrong
Be careful what you believe
She's the moral of the story
She's the hell in heavens search
And the fire that keeps burning
She's the lesson never learned
What love is she embodies
She is beauty never seen
She's every word to draw you in
And every word you believe
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7. |
A Simple Glance
04:10
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A heart with no shame behind curtains drawn
I’ll be waiting for you, I’ll be waiting for you
Behind the wall I sit, in only thought I see
what will never change, what I know can be
My faith I will rest with my hands by my side
I resist the temptation, for what should be mine
If wanted I am, then hers I will be
of fear I am wary, in truth I believe
And she comes
without fail
for hours she will speak
but she never tells
She comes again
silently sits
then with a simple glance
tells me everything
I know what I am, this will never change
silhouette in the window, holding the flame
It’s destiny’s hand, it’s touch I await
I pace back and forth looking for no escape
And she comes
without fail
for hours she will speak
but she never tells
She comes again
silently sits
then with a simple glance
tells me everything
Hold tight, the road you know it turns
clear sight for the ones who chose to learn
hold tight, the road you know
It turns on you
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8. |
Truth About Gina
04:01
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Gina tries to understand
why she holds so little in her hand
and how she can't remember
what has passed through
A mirror finds wet Gina's eyes
for reasons unidentified
and if you ask her why
she says, "I never cry"
But far behind
her calm expression lies the truth
An image of a little girl
flashes now in an older world
before she was taught to need
and learned to want
You can ask but never understand
the pain as my innocence burns
she says "I was made a child
that is what I am"
But far beyond
her pale white skin lies
the truth she denies
so not to face her battered innocence
little memories carry her away
for every beginning there must be an ending
so to the child she returns
Gina tries to understand
why she holds so little in her hand
and how she can't remember
what has passed through
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9. |
Lost
02:59
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Circled by shadow for so long
the fear of what is right or wrong
resentment bred by giving, oh the cost
I am here
I am not here
I am lost
Angered by the love, the pain I cannot hide
the house I labored to build cannot find
a touch so strong the strength that once was
Is it here
It is not here
It is lost
Flicker flame as I rest my head
held in the clutches of regret
I go to trance in the candle red
With every breath and step the search goes on
with every day I discover I am torn
did love lie beside me once?
and is it here?
it is not here
it is lost
I am here
I am not here
I am lost
I am here
here
lost
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10. |
I Cannot Believe
02:31
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It's not what you say
it's what I feel
from the words that once
made me slip into
happiness that saved me once
betrayed me now
I cannot believe in anything
I cannot need anyone
I will not search through the ruins
for the fragments of a shattered heart
Strung to the thin line
between truth and lie
love and hate, right and wrong
Once crowned by love
then crucified
I cannot rise
I cannot believe in anything
I cannot need anyone
I will not search through the ruins
for the fragments of a shattered heart
And boundless is the sea
in this moment I have met
the soul walking on my path
In blindness and tranquility
the bitter potion slowly heals
I accept this seasons burning cold
It burns me still
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11. |
Goodbye
03:44
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Your hands on the glass
your face wet with tears goodbye
A little girl in a big world
you suffered, then suffered more
If nothing last forever
then why can't I forget
my friend
where have you been?
Tears rolled down the glass
the weird have killed us
reasons never had
I'm way out here
and you're nowhere
I know now 'till I die
we will never touch the sky
If nothing last forever
then why can't I forget
my friend
where have you been?
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12. |
Great Pretender
04:50
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I am the great pretender
pretending I can't see
The actor strikes a pose against the script he's given
he blames every hand that ever laid upon him
The clown, white, drips as he tries to recover all he's lost
his heart, his soul he cannot find
I am the great pretender
Pretending I can't see
In solitude he steps toward the waiting arms of a lonely night
it is his life, it is his lover
Boundaries marked by pain
it keeps all passion in his pocket
he buried the love that could not die
I am the great pretender
Pretending I can't see
The comic slaps his side while tragedy sits on his shoulder
have another drink, the night is so young
While away another chapter waits patiently for it's hero
who has yet to save a single day
I am the great pretender
Pretending I can’t see
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13. |
March On
05:12
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I'm slipping back into my shell
never thought about it either way
it should be gone by now
but I guess it never left
Like a novel whose last page I read first
I'm somewhere in the middle now
denying how it all turns out
March on
all you poor souls
March on
all you scared sinners
March on
I walk beside you
Oh the days they pass so slowly now
when you've seen the sum of their worth
I remember when
they moved too fast for me
On the reins, my hands would stay
now I have just let them go
yet still they are still
March on �
It's true I walk beside you now
tomorrow's fear keeps love from hands
I've written of chains hoping it would break me free
But it didn't, it will be no different this time
March on �
We reap what we sow
but look at what we've been given
it's truly impossible
to build from nothing at all
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14. |
King Of Loneliness
04:52
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I am searching for the missing piece that makes me whole
the hate I feel for what I have become allows me no control
truth has all but vanished from all I say and do
if wishes did come true
I'd wish for the purity I once knew
I once knew
I'm past the point of no return
I'm past the point of caring
I have screamed as loud as I can scream
no one ever listens
I am king of loneliness
I can't give this crown away
from never wanting anything
I got too much of nothing
As a boy I did believe if I closed my eyes I would disappear
but I would always open them for fear it would be true
too much time spent inside and this
childhood logic is realized
now look I have disappeared
I closed my eyes too long
too long
I'm past the point of no return
I'm past the point of caring
I have screamed as loud as I can scream
no one ever listens
I am king of loneliness
I can't give this crown away
from never wanting anything
I got too much of nothing
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15. |
Solemn Sun Setting
03:45
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Admit what you are like you admitted before
you never hid you spoke the truth
no matter what it is said about you
Admit what you are like you did so many times
write the words that lie inside
it is still all you are
I crossed my heart so many times not even I believe
opened up my eyes to see
love does not belong in hands like these
There is nothing more to learn
time to close, not for concern
as the solemn sun sets
You've read all the books
made the meanings what you wished
every lie you justified
the lead role was always yours
You cheated love then screamed
rearranging every scene
shaking loose in angers rage
the foundation on which you stand
I fought truth for oh so long
my eyes can't see
my heart won't feel
in this corner I sit still but my thoughts never will
There is nothing more to learn
time to close, not for concern
as the solemn sun sets
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16. |
Who Are You?
05:01
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Human Drama Los Angeles, California
HUMAN DRAMA-2020
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.
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