If Not Now, When - Incubus

I have waited
Dined on ashes

Swung from chandeliers and climbed Everest

And none of it's got me close to this

I've waited all my life

If not now, when will I?

We've been good

Even a blast, but

Don't you feel like something's missing here?

Don't you dare

I've waited all my life

If not now, when will I?

Stand up and face the bright light

Don't hide your eyes

It's time

No umbrellas

No sunglasses

Healing Hallelujah everyday

I've waited all my life

If not now, when will I?

Stand up and face the bright light

Don't hide your eyes

It's time

You Could Be Happy - Snow Patrol

You could be happy and I won't know

But you weren't happy the day I watched you go

And all the things that I wished I had not said

Are played in loops 'till it's madness in my head


Is it too late to remind you how we were

But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur


Most of what I remember makes me sure

I should have stopped you from walking out the door

You could be happy, I hope you are

You made me happier than I'd been by far


Somehow everything I own smells of you

And for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Do the things that you always wanted to

Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do

More than anything I want to see you, girl

Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

Saved

I may be lost around you these days

Inside your mystic labyrinth if I may

Shivering cold tired and demented

When thoughts of you fall down on me like God’s sunshine

A deadly dance from present to past

A frightening painful ritual I must last

Like an ancient magic time surely must have had killed

That fate made stronger just to spite the power it wields

But I’m alright, though just a little bit deranged

Bumping into walls of you

Scattered into a million pieces of me

Going into a state I can’t control…I can’t escape

It’s no use; I’m like a blotted sheet of music out in the rain

Left unfinished thrown out without a refrain

But let this madness roll and rage

Because you still have me

Enough to turn on the unceasing rain

So let it pour down and drown me

If this is the only way to keep a little of you
Just a little of you with me

To keep me sane

If I can’t be saved

Glimmer

Hey Ian what have you done?

You went away too early to vanish like the sun

I guess you couldn't stand the night that had just begun
Growing around your world like some freaking spawn  

I know you couldn't see clearly beyond the glimmer of dawn

But why do it just a wee bit sooner?
Why be a little rash?
Couldn't wait to feel the never ending hurt slowly fade away?
You could have stayed another morning to pick a nicer day

I know life like a bad joke was hard to swallow

As the walls boxed you in and around

Like a sick tightening noose at the gallows

Wish you could have stayed a bit more

We could have had more tea...just a little bit more

Abelard

How painful is the silence that breaks this creation in shards

Passion so brutally pieced and torn apart

A muted scream like Eloisa's anguish for Abelard

O Eternal grief humbly concealed in disdain

Should a tortured soul beg for mercy or a sword

A remedy...to exact clemency from the stinging pain

Is this sacrifice? This bitter brew of love, hate and despair he regularly partakes?

Melded by his own miserecorde in life's searing goblet
As time like a gentle executioner smiles for fleeting pleasure's sake

Like a knight's silent ransom to save a fled maiden from cruel judges that reign
A misconstrued servant's last stand to save what he holds most endearing and true
From a voyage that holds the promise of more unjust pain.
Should this banneret refrain?

Thus in a deathly silence in this cold tomb he sleeps

In dreams he lives and in life he bleeds

Irresistible

It makes me smile beyond myself
How clouds move around
Around a light alien to the sun
In a surreal sunny day that now I can seem to reach
Scent of flowers beside my feet
Chameleon colours over a hand painted road...
A path...like a beautiful card that must be dealt with

Will you read this note in your dream?
Will you weep at the news as you sleep?
A treasure hungers to be embraced
Answers beckon not demanded
A trove of mysteries that must unfold
A journey sourly awaits
A path...irresistible like a beautiful card that must be dealt with

In Between

She turns a blind corner
Skipping about unprepared

Looking for something about nothing

Following lines that go everywhere and around

Checking her watch to find not time but colors

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without

She gathers her strength
Tracing lights in dark water
Trying to make do with fleeting shapes
Anything that shines sputters
Because love doesn't matter
It doesn't matter anymore

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without

She gazes up to a sky burning
A swirling shine of all that she never minds
She looks back down
To the ground full of sparrows
No colors
But it doesn't matter anymore

They whirl in her mind
Inside and around
They dance in her eyes
Within and without