[CHORUS1] Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and the end draws ever nearer Life is very fine but there are Fissures in our minds and we are sifting through the ashes and our fate grows ever clearer VERSE0 We remember In our young times How our hearts flew But we were reckless with our schemes We have angered Those that drew us Gods of the new lust Now invade our very dreams [CHORUS2] Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time although our actions are misguided For in the season we are blind And we are searching in the sky And we are blurring all the lines Our attentions are divided VERSE2 When I wake up In the morning You are staring And your eyes are deep with dreams You are standing In the distance Light is streaming In the windows shattered beams (and we are) [CHORUS3] (we are) Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and the end grows ever nearer (and we) have to tell our lies and we have to be our time And we are tearing at the sky and we are feeling all the distances between us BRIDGE In our youth we wandered in the sun down a path we won't remember Each hasty thought is lost before we thought to wonder How our footsteps are dismembered //How each footstep is dismembered In a fog we place these memories Find some solace in their embers But in these dreams we feel a flush of something glowing In the depths of our December [CHORUS2] Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time although our actions are misguided For in the season we are blind And we are searching in the sky And we are blurring all the lines Our attentions are divided [CHORUS3] (we are) Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time and the end grows ever nearer (and we) have to tell our lies and we have to be our time And we are tearing at the sky and we are feeling all the distances between us [ALTERNATE VERSE FORM] Jooooin my side Lie down next to me Speak these words and take my hand Take these lies Shared so easily And we will make our final stand (as we are) [CHORUS4] Stumbling through time and we are stumbling through time but we have crossed these tangled lines and are abandoning our station And now free to walk the grounds As we make our evening rounds But in our crime forsake all reason And the season is upon us And the treason lives inside us Fleeing from the dawn’s unholy light

(feelin' fine at) Tree school (lookin' great at) (do my time at) (loose my mind at) (serving time at) Tree schoool (come be mine at) Treee school (intertwined at) Treee school (feelin' rhymes at) Tree school (blowin' minds at) (making friends at) Tree school (make amends for) Tree school (Play pretend at) Tree school (It all depends at) Tree school --------------- VERSE A On sunny reaches we have burrowed In reassuring branches we are swept It is time's intention we receive the storied wisdom And be nurtured by such mentors we accept VERSE B Beneath the branches, we indulge strange explorations Those breathless chances and such entertaining ends Without a ghost between us we have entered God's pavillion And are falling through, the breeze again Reaching for the shadows of our friends [CHORUS] VERSE A Bold and free, we accept your visions Accept our lessons from the elder's shaking hand And we boldly leave the nest, though the world beyond is frightening We must fear what we can never understand VERSE B All along the halls, we suffer strange attentions We uncover strange inventions in insufferable lands Yet we meet the strange demands of such insufferable aliens For we have catered to the sun but rejected its demands // For we have catered to the sun with such intolerable plans Caring not we crumble where we stand Bb(4) F(4) G(8) Bb(4) F(4) G(8) Bb(4) F(4) G(8) A(16) [CHORUS] VERSE A Now find homes among these halls, though they echo with our laughter And remember each disaster that our shadows apprehend We have known you as a friend, though the time we share is fleeting We're repeating all the messages you send VERSE B And now we all pretend, We all join in the procession And we greet you hand in hand, and we all stand as one Set our sights upon the sun, and the game that we are winning We are spinning off our axis, we are cutting all our ties We're abandoning our practices and opening our minds We are grinding all our axes we are burning our disguise WE ARE LIVING IN PURSUIT OF OUR DEMISE

Spend your days a drinking Lift the bottle, toast the soul left unattended But that pale horse... Is coming after you Spend your days a dancing Tiptoe lightly on the graves of your intended But that pale horse.... Is riding after you And he's coming down the mountain and he’s waiting down the ally and he’s coming on the four winds And he’s riding down the valley Take up on the mountain Cry your name out hear it carried in the wind And a pale horse is coming after you Take up with your woman Kneel down praying naked as the day you came But a pale horse is gonna coming away with you And he's coming down the mountain and he’s waiting down the ally and he’s riding on the four winds And he’s coming down the valley And if what they say is true He'll ride away with you Carried on the winds so divine, so divine You can pray until you're blue But still your days are through That pale horse is gonna make and end of you Practice your devotions Chant the words and hear them hollow in the shadows But that pale horse, is gonna ride away with you Memorize the motions Repeat the patterns, let them occupy your days And that pale horse is coming after you And if what they say is true He'll ride away with you Carried on the winds so divine, so divine You can pray until you're blue But still your days are through That pale horse is coming after you That pale horse is gonna make and end of you That pale horse is gonna ride away with you

How the clouds are broken And the titans sleep at last Eliza lies in silence and grooms her dreams alone Curious to wake She modulates and gasps Broadcasting in overtones and whispers of the past [CHORUS] Who let her in And who will let her out? Shouting into the wind Spinning around The world is waiting When will her life begin Her time is running out Scratching into the walls Every repetitive day The light is fading G G G D D A ...... D D D A A G ..... Observe the hand that grasps At every blade of grass At long last the scars are fading Seven lifetimes pass Since you have seen her last Dancing in the halls her laughter ringing from the walls [CHORUS] Who let her in And who will let her out? Shouting into the wind Spinning around The world is waiting When will her life begin Her time is running out Scratching into the walls Every repetitive day The light is fading G G G D D A ...... D D D A A G ..... [OUTRO] She writhes in heather everyday Arrives in feathers cloaked in grey And time untethers her until the sun is out In every portrait she portrays Her mind uncovers saturdays beneath the circus tent circuits bent and bleeding (blending?) And she is signing off She is signing off, the signal's down Her time is up And she is signing off She is signing off, the signal's down Her time isa up And she is signing off She is signing off, the signal's down Her time is up ABANDONING the silence The world desires something she is not

We dread the silence, but the silence always comes Adrift on islands, abandoned and unsung We lost our way, and missed the target by a mile We find each other, and gather in the night We join our voices, and hold each other tight Not to be torn away, by tragedy or guile [CHORUS] And we have to find a way To make our voice heard over the noise floor Not to be turned away When facing down the future we came for The words lodged in our throats and lost in vacant minds We dream of better lives, such futures as will come We grasp at every straw and march to every drum And so we pass our days, exhuberent and smiling We plan and gamble, compiling our schemes Pursue our vision until it haunts our dreams We wake up the next day to find our work has washed away The [Am] world was up for [D] grabs But we were [G] busy chasing [G/B] butterflies and [Em] habits And we [C]wouldn't have had a clue just what we'd [D]do with it If we had [G]grabbed it [VERSE CHORDS] This is the world as we found it And we like the way it fits This is the world as we arrived at And we like the sound of that Hearts break, the days go by And we're left staring at the skies Hoping that some signal will follow Life takes, the seasons fly And we're left here to wonder why Waiting for the hint of an echo

In times of passing days The embers will remember The darkness of December They are dining on their greed Bringing deafness to their pleas The gods' own (broken) wisdom To their failures and their efforts And telling of the splendors Of that endless summer sea In mindless distrophy Are the chilren who are laughing in the purest form of splendor And every last bartender Laughs and pours another drink For those who dread to think That the playful autumn laughter Is an aftermath disaster [disasterous] Embedded in the plaster [plasters / of] Of that stark and silent sea It laughs at memory forever (more) Time is master And their children will remember Such dreams that they dismember In their soft and golden freedom And nothing shall redeem them For their minds are hollow Like the weakest tree in winter With such force did they splinter That their laughter's peals fell silent With every passing moment Such freedoms as we witnessed With bitterness and hisses Such complicated crystals Fill the every winter breeze And we fall down to our knees Though the gods refuse our pleas (quiet) Now we are silent ever more For the porridge of dismissal And it was such a graceful missle As decends our elder sphere In such depths we are reared In darkness we are smeared Until the falllllllllll Of the slumbers Reaches us here