RAY WILSON

RAY WILSON > The Next Best Thing

Threatening words come my way in some strange disguises
Flesh torn gestures in my face
Don’t take my place away
I could try to forgive
Even though I don’t know what should be forgiven

Do I go crazy, before you take notice
Until you can see it in me?

Drift away touch upon the deepest emotion
As I watch you’ll become, someone else’s problem
Given time I’ll make waves in another ocean
I’m the chosen one.

Do I go crazy, before you take notice
Until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?

I adore you. I deplore you
All your actions I can see through
I can’t pretend I know what’s going on

Do I go crazy, before you take notice
Until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?

Sometimes

See me out, out the door, across the way
And let me walk for miles and miles and miles
Calm me down when I get scared
And hold my life in your hand

The living space inside my head is there for you
Like a long lost friend
Innocence and pride
Makes me vulnerable sometimes
Love ain’t enough

Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have

It’s the meaning of life
And no amount of time will change a thing
Why oh why
In Gods name do you lie?
All the time

Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have

Alone

Autumn leaves are falling down again.
Last year seems like yesterday
What to do now that those days have gone
I have to start again.

Inspiration ain’t so hard to find
Words already on the page
I just have to write it down
In my own way
Say something worth saying

Time comes and goes
A life unnoticed
Cry out loud

Don’t let me wake from this dream
I won’t be a friend in need
No one escapes from this feeling
No no

I tell myself hold on
Everything is right, not wrong
Love is what I ask for tonight

Hold onto me
I can’t breath
Why am I alone

Blame them but don’t blame me
I know all the liars disagree
You can’t just escape from believing
No no

Magic Train

Life’s a magic train hell and back again
Rollercoaster for emotion
You think you’ve seen it all
You think you know it but you don’t know

Life’s a magic train that we’re all travelling in
Each new day another station
She said she wanted me but it might take a little time
Make take a little time

Am I supposed to wait around for you?
I’m not opposed to waiting around
I just need to know cause it’s nice to be needed
It’s getting me down, doing it now

I hold on to love
It’s a better place for everyone to be
I alone can’t save the world
I’ll only save this little part for me
I lie here in my bed
Wishing it would all just blow away

Am I supposed to play the clown for you?
I’m not that use to fooling around
You say you need me now
Well I’d like to believe it
It’s getting me down and doing it now
Getting me down and doing it now
You’re going ruin my life

The Actor

I smile at the misplaced faces
Trying to convince myself
All the answers lye with me

I look at my broken picture
Find it so hard to believe
As now the past comes back to haunt me

It’s alright I’m alright, I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore, I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me

Wish I hadn’t been so vain
Been and gone and thrown away
Regrets I keep, The blame I give to me

It’s alright I’m alright, I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore, I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me

Here’s the point I raise blame
And discipline the fool inside my head
Where nothings fair and no one there
To honour all mistakes I’ve made
And looking through my own debris
I see nothing but me and more of me
It’s so distressing all the blessing
Never seems to fall on me.

The pictures framed to form an edge
The truth it lies within the heart
It’s funny how we live this life and
Never seem to live enough
I won’t be true cause I can’t seem to
It’s only just a state of mind that
Time and time and time and time again

It changes, I swallow what I want to say
I’m broken up I cannot breath
I cannot be I need I need to
All in all and every time I follow you
I see it out; see it out of blind eyes

It’s alright I’m alright, I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore, I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me

Ever The Reason

Upon my life
Love of an honest day
The memory of you will slowly fade
Within I hold
Hold it all alone
The fire in my soul begins to burn

Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone

(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life

Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said

(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life

Pumpkinhead

So what’s it all about, does anybody know?
It’s hard to figure out, to be patient
The time is nearly now

The walls are closing in
And time is running out
I’m getting out

These changes wash over me in my head

The fear is taking over
And left me so alone
It leaves me feeling angry with myself

These changes wash over me in my head
These changes wash over me in my head in my head

What’s it all about what’s it all about, does anybody know?
How can I explain to you?
When how do I, I don’t know I won’t go
What’s it all about where’s the feeling gone
I can’t explain it, it’s in my mind
Burning like a fire that won’t go out it won’t go out.

These changes wash over me in my head

So what’s it all about, does anybody care?
Can you feel the fear?
Washing over everybody, everybody’s head

These changes wash over me in my head
These changes wash over me in my head in my head
In my head in my head In my head

The Next Best Thing

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